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Indian Sun: The Life & Music of Ravi Shankar-Beatle
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- ISBN
- 9780306874888
- Book Title
- Indian Sun : the Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
- Item Length
- 9.9in
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2.4in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music, History
- Topic
- Composers & Musicians, Asia / India & South Asia, Genres & Styles / International
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 33 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 672 Pages
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One of Library Journal 's "Best Arts Books of 2020" The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with the cooperation of his estate, family, and friends For over eight decades, Ravi Shankar was India's greatest cultural ambassador. He was a groundbreaking performer and composer of Indian classical music, who brought the music and rich culture of India to the world's leading concert halls and festivals, charting the map for those who followed in his footsteps. Renowned for playing Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and the Concert for Bangladesh-and for teaching George Harrison of The Beatles how to play the sitar-Shankar reshaped the musical landscape of the 1960s across pop, jazz, and classical music, and composed unforgettable scores for movies like Pather Panchali and Gandhi. In Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar , writer Oliver Craske presents readers with the first full portrait of this legendary figure, revealing the personal and professional story of a musician who influenced-and continues to influence-countless artists. Craske paints a vivid picture of a captivating, restless workaholic-from his lonely and traumatic childhood in Varanasi to his youthful stardom in his brother's dance troupe, from his intensive study of the sitar to his revival of India's national music scene. Shankar's musical influence spread across both genres and generations, and he developed close friendships with John Coltrane, Philip Glass, Yehudi Menuhin, George Harrison, and Benjamin Britten, among many others. For ninety-two years, Shankar lived an endlessly colorful and creative life, a life defined by musical, emotional, and spiritual quests-and his legacy lives on. Benefiting from unprecedented access to Shankar's archives, and drawing on new interviews with over 130 subjects-including his second wife and both of his daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar- Indian Sun gives readers unparalleled insight into a man who transformed modern music as we know it today.
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Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-10
0306874881
ISBN-13
9780306874888
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038261014
Product Key Features
Book Title
Indian Sun : the Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Asia / India & South Asia, Genres & Styles / International
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, History
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.9in
Item Height
2.4in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
33 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml419.S49c73 2020
Reviews
"Tells the personal and musical story of a life that changed so many musical cultures." -- BBC Radio 3's Music Matters, "[A] superlative biography... [A] masterly chronicle of a life teeming with all-too-human incident but heavenly inspiration."-- London Times, "A supremely readable biography that deftly interweaves his personal life, his professional life, and where necessary some brilliant analysis of his music and Indian music in general." -- Songlines, "The definitive biography of the Maestro, told with the cooperation of his estate, family, and friends. Rigorously researched and lovingly presented, Oliver Craske offers a detailed and compelling account of the life of Ravi Shankar and the worlds he touched through his music and personal journey." -- East Meets West Music, "The definitive biography of the Maestro, told with the cooperation of his estate, family, and friends. Rigorously researched and lovingly presented, Oliver Craske offers a detailed and compelling account of the life of Ravi Shankar and the worlds he touched through his music and personal journey."-- East Meets West Music, "A supremely readable biography that deftly interweaves his personal life, his professional life, and where necessary some brilliant analysis of his music and Indian music in general."-- Songlines, "Tells the personal and musical story of a life that changed so many musical cultures."-- BBC Radio 3's Music Matters, '...[A]nintimate, expert reading of Shankar's music, as well as revelatory access tocreate the definitive portrait of his context within modern culture."-- The Guardian, "A key virtue of thisfine biography is that it mostly resists the tendency to idealise Shankar. When[Richard] Attenborough went to see India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, inthe early 1960s about his proposed film on Gandhi, Nehru advised him that itwould be wrong to deify the Mahatma because 'he was too great a man for that.' Craske fruitfully follows the spirit of Nehru's advice." -- Sight & Sound, "...Craske handles the niceties of Shankar's personal life with diplomacy while staying focused on his subject's musical mission and lifelong hunger for spiritual fulfilment. He wears his expertise lightly and his passion on his sleeve: a winning combination for a definitive work." -- The Observer, "...Craske handles the niceties of Shankar's personal life with diplomacy while staying focused on his subject's musical mission and lifelong hunger for spiritual fulfilment. He wears his expertise lightly and his passion on his sleeve: a winning combination for a definitive work."-- The Observer, " Indian Sun... gives us a superb trove of detail, some of it astonishing... Mr. Craske is at his best when writing about the least-emphasized aspects of Shankar's career... Yet the book excels, too, in those areas of which we're already aware. Mr. Craske is eloquent on the appeal of the music itself, and explains superbly how the Indian and Western classical idioms are so unlike each other."-- Wall Street Journal, '"Read as a whole, this book feels like an Indian version of A Dance to the Music of Time : the same characters bumping into each other over the course of nearly a century, relationships fraying and re-knitting, love affairs flaring, dying down, re-igniting, children repeating the mistakes of their parents, all against a backdrop of war and famine and independence and nationalism."-- The Spectator, "[A] superlative biography... [A] masterly chronicle of a life teeming with all-too-human incident but heavenly inspiration." -- London Times, " Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth... Oliver Craske traces the full breadth of Shankar's life beyond the known flashpoints of his career."-- NPR's All Things Considered, "A master receives masterly treatment... anoutstanding, forensic and deeply sympathetic biography..." -- The Arts Desk, '...[A]nintimate, expert reading of Shankar's music, as well as revelatory access tocreate the definitive portrait of his context within modern culture." -- The Guardian, "A master receives masterly treatment... anoutstanding, forensic and deeply sympathetic biography..."-- The Arts Desk, "A key virtue of thisfine biography is that it mostly resists the tendency to idealise Shankar. When[Richard] Attenborough went to see India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, inthe early 1960s about his proposed film on Gandhi, Nehru advised him that itwould be wrong to deify the Mahatma because 'he was too great a man for that.' Craske fruitfully follows the spirit of Nehru's advice."-- Sight & Sound, "Oliver Craske's extraordinary biography Indian Sun ... is not a hagiographic portrait of a spiritual icon but a remarkably human life story, defined by familial failures, seething rivalries, physical frailty and relentless ambition. For anyone who has been moved by a Shankar recording, this is a portrait of the man behind the music and the unchartered waters of Shankar's quest to save Indian classical music from extinction. With his elegant writing and extensive research, Craske manages to shatter Shankar's cliché Eastern sage persona and rebuild his reputation as one of the giants of world music. Indian Sun transcends its subject by becoming something larger than a narrow timeline of an undeniably large life. In using Shankar as an axis, Craske has written a broader cultural history of music and hyphenated artists in the 20th century - a measured rumination on the possibilities and the price of artistic ambition... this is a beautiful book, as resplendent as its subject's music and life."-- Washington Post
Lccn
2018-561785
Dewey Decimal
787.8/2 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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