Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism By Anna Schultz

Artistes Against Fascism: Music Dance and Poetry September 29, 2013 - 11am to 4pm (Jantar Mantar, Delhi)

Artistes under the banner pf Artistes Against Fascism from Delhi have decided to respond, to the screeching and jingoistic monologue projected manifolds by the corporate media, through their music, dance, poetry- the language of love and sanity. Let Us Celebrate Diversity.

JOIN US to say : WE OPPOSE COMMUNAL FASCIST FORCES
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Brilliant! world street singers sing Stand by Me - Playing for Change

Stand by Me - Playing for Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh7YyoDD138

Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Akoxj_3Ts&feature=related

'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live' Irish proverb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBaGUpB1Dt8&feature=related

CHANDA MAMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIzddbBW8n0&feature=fvwrel

War / No More Trouble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08GXrTvxzuQ&feature=relmfu

One Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4LB0O91A8&feature=relmfu

Redemption Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTyqU0AaUkY&feature=related

Blues of People

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXO_0BJdU84&feature=related

Imagine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-t2ouOLYYw&feature=related

Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es3Vsfzdr14&feature=related

La Tierra Del Olvido

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejcVLJsDdDE&feature=related

Remembering Mahatma Gandhi: उड जायेगा हंस अकेला / जग दर्शन का मेला ।।

उड जायेगा हंस अकेला
जग दर्शन का मेला ।।
Kumar Gandharva - Ud Jayega

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY2k0JcfByg

Music giving India's young a new voice

A decade ago, bands playing Pink Floyd and Beatles covers were the staple of Western rock in India but today's musicians are shunning that, says Mr Datta.

"Today, there is immense pride in doing your own thing. The youth is more about having our own say than to adopt something Western. Ten or 15 years back, bands in India were pretty ashamed of doing original stuff. People used to get booed off stage and were very apologetic."

Music has often been a way for young people to make themselves heard at a time of change, be it rock and roll, punk or Brit pop. "Fifteen or twenty years ago the Indian audiences were enamoured with the West. It didn't matter if you were a good band or not, the audience would rather see a white singer on stage. "That's changed now, today they want to listen to good music, wherever it is from. They don't consider themselves members of a third world country anymore. They see themselves as part of a greater global scene."

India has one of the world's largest populations of young people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15999072

Goodbye Dev Anand - Musaafir, jaayega kahaan

Wahan Kaun Hai Tera (from the movie Guide, 1965)

vahaan kaun hai tera, musaafir, jaayega kahaan dam lele ghadi bhar, ye chhaiyaan, paayega kahaan vahaan kaun hai tera, musaafir, jaayega kahaan vahaan kaun hai tera..................... beet gaye din, pyaar ke palchhin sapna bani woh raaten bhuul gaye woh, tu bhi bhula de pyaar ki woh mulaaqaaten, pyaar ki woh mulaaqaaten sab door andhera, sab door andhera, musaafir jaayega kahaan koi bhi teri, raaha naa dekhe nain bichhaaye naa koi dard se tere, koi naa tadpa aankh kisi ki naa royi, aankh kisi ki naa royi kahe kisko tu meraa, kahe kisko tu meraa, musaafir jaayegaa kahaan ho o o o, musaafir, tu jaaye gaa kahaan kahate hai gyaani, duniya hai faani paani pe likhi likhaayi hai sabki dekhi, hai sabki jaani haath kisike naa aayi haath kisike naa aayi kuchh teraa naa meraa, kuchh teraa naa meraa, musaafir jaayegaa kahaan Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gdslTUJE4g&feature=fvsr

In praise of… George Harrison and My Sweet Lord

Hear the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48gIt84AZc&feature=related

Ten years on from the death of the quiet Beatle, there's all sorts of George nostalgia, including an enjoyable Scorsese film. But much of it makes the dreadful mistake of hailing Harrison's 60s delusion that you could make a good record by taking the genuine magic of the sitar and bolting on top a monotonous dirge enlivened with a few lysergic "insights". The truth is that the interest in eastern spirtualism did pay dividends, but only after the drone of Love You To and Within You Without You had faded away. With My Sweet Lord, George returned to the form that had made the Beatles name – the straight, great little pop tune. 



source:http://redriverpak.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/music-flashback-george-harrison/


But he twisted the familiar formula – substituting the usual jingle concerning a yearning for sexual gratification with lyrics about a yearning for death, or the redemption he believed that it promised. He thereby married his newfound mysticism to the musical format of which he was a past master. There was a legal dispute about whether the melody and very nice chord sequence, with that distinctive diminished seventh, had been lifted from The Chiffons' He's So Fine. Maybe, but no one comparing their mindless "doo-lang-doo-lang" backing vocals with Harrison's extraordinary multifaith mantra – which moves from Hallelujah to Hare Krishna – could dispute he was doing something new. As George sings of salvation, his voice projects real peace of mind, and then of course there's the weeping guitar. It all combines to lend a taste of grace to the most irreligious of ears. Hear the song: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48gIt84AZc&feature=related


and here he is singing While my guitar gently weeps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3qx4RQotho&feature=related
at the Concert for Bangladesh organised by him and Ravi Shankar on August 1, 1971 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=ryV6TSbszeI&NR=1
I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps.