Folk music
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‘People would have lost their culture’: the Birmingham record label that saved south Asian music
From a transistor radio shop, Oriental Star Agencies championed legends such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and nurt…
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‘Totally full of spiritual energy’: Ustad Noor Bakhsh, the Pakistani musician discovered on the side of a road
Inspired by birdsong and playing the obscure zither-like benju, the 78-year-old is enjoying a surge in global …
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Pandit Jasraj: tributes paid to ‘incomparable genius’ of Indian classical music
Narendra Modi said the death of Jasraj, aged 90, leaves ‘a deep void in the Indian cultural sphere’. Here, his…