culture?

An exchange is what we’re all about. I learn from you. You learn from me. And what emerges is global. I’ve always wondered what the tag ‘world music’ is all about. But as I explore new sounds and try and identify what is me, I find out that the music i listen to has a lot to do with the fact that I am more of a global citizen than the generation before me. I am more wired/electronically inclined than they are, i have western influences in tase, but I am rooted in the culture of my own country. So I have three videos here, that will finally help me define how musical styles and cultures tend to affect each other, and how, what is produced down the line is a new style, more relevant to a more global generation that identifies with it. No wonder the style is often called the global underground.

Video 1: George Harrison of the Beatles, learns the sitar from Indian master Pandit Ravi Shankar. The sitar was then used in many of their tracks, and helped add a new dimension to their sound.

Video 2: Ananda Shankar, brother of Pandit Ravi Shankar, does a version of The Doors ‘Light My Fire’. He is the first Indian artist to adopt Western musical styles with the sounds of his sitar, and also add electronic influences.

Video 3: My generation. The resultant style of the musical coitus of the East and West. Anoushka Shankar. Daughter of Pandit Ravi Shankar, and step sister to Norah Jones,performing a genre of Indian electronica that sounds very global indeed. Its new, its conscious, its universal and its wired.