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641 relations: A. R. Rahman, Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyo, Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Addictive (song), Afghanistan, Ahmed Rushdi, Alankāra, Alapana, Alathur Brothers, Ali Akbar Khan, Alisha Chinai, Alka Yagnik, Ama Lai Shraddhanjali, Amitabh Bachchan, An Oriental Biographical Dictionary, Ancient Tamil music, Ancient veena, André de Quadros, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Angul, Anil Srinivasan, Anklet, Annamacharya, Anu Malik, Anushka Manchanda, Apradh, Apsara, Arab world, Arijit Singh, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Aruna Sairam, Asha Bhosle, Ashwin Batish, Asian Dub Foundation, Asian Underground, Assam, Assamese people, Australia, Avial (band), Śārṅgadeva, Baba Sehgal, BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, Baithak Gana, Balakanda, Balakrushna Dash, Bally Sagoo, Bangalore, Bangladesh, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bansuri, ... Expand index (591 more) »
A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in international cinema.
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Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyo
() is a 2004 Indian war film directed by Anil Sharma.
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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Addictive (song)
"Addictive" is a song by American R&B singer Truth Hurts.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Ahmed Rushdi
Ahmed Rushdi (احمد رشدی; 24 April 1934 – 11 April 1983) was a versatile Pakistani playback singer and was "an important contributor to the golden age of Pakistani film music." Regarded as one of the greatest singers in South Asia who could sing high tenor notes with ease, he is best known for his versatility and distinctive voice, with complex and dark emotional expressions.
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Alankāra
Alankara, also referred to as palta or alankaram, is a concept in Indian classical music and literally means "ornament, decoration".
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Alapana
In Carnatic classical music, alapana is a form of manodharmam, or improvisation, that introduces and develops a raga (musical scale).
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Alathur Brothers
Alathur Brothers Srinivasa Iyer (1911–1980) & Sivasubramania Iyer (1916–1965) were Carnatic vocalists.
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Ali Akbar Khan
Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.
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Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai (born 18 March 1965) is an Indian pop singer known for her Indi-pop albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema.
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Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema.
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Ama Lai Shraddhanjali
Ama Lai Shraddhanjali (Nepali: आमालाई श्रद्धाञ्जली. English translation: Tribute to Mother) is a Nepali folk music album by Navneet Aditya Waiba and Satya Waiba, released on 3 November 2017 in Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (born Amitabh Srivastava; 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema.
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An Oriental Biographical Dictionary
An Oriental Biographical Dictionary (original title The Oriental Biographical Dictionary) was an important biographical dictionary of the Islamic, Persian and Indian worlds by Thomas William Beale, published posthumously by The Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1881.
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Ancient Tamil music
The ancient Tamil music is the historical predecessor of the Carnatic music during the Sangam period spanning from 500 BCE to 200 CE.
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Ancient veena
The ancient veena is an early Indian arched harp, not to be confused with the modern Indian veena which is a type of lute or stick zither.
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André de Quadros
André de Quadros is a conductor, ethnomusicologist, music educator, and human rights activist.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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Angul
Angul (also known as Anugul) is a town, municipality and the headquarters of Angul district in the state of Odisha, India.
Anil Srinivasan
Anil Srinivasan (born 3 June 1977) is an Indian pianist and an education entrepreneur.
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Anklet
An anklet, also called ankle chain, ankle bracelet or ankle string, is an ornament worn around the ankle.
Annamacharya
Tallapaka Annamacharya (22 May 1408 – 4 April 1503), also popularly known as Annamayya, was a musician, composer, and a Hindu saint.
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Anu Malik
Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer.
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Anushka Manchanda
Anushka Manchanda aka Kiss Nuka (born 11 February 1984) is a singer, music producer, composer, creative entrepreneur, actor, activist, and former VJ of Indian origin.
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Apradh
Apradh is a 1972 action thriller romance Hindi film produced and directed by Feroz Khan.
Apsara
Apsaras (अप्सरा,, Akcharā Khmer: អប្សរា Thai:นางอัปสร) are a member of a class of celestial beings in Hindu and Buddhist culture They were originally a type of female spirit of the clouds and waters, but, later play the role of a "nymph" or "fairy".
Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Arijit Singh
Arijit Singh (born 25 April 1987) is an Indian playback singer and music composer.
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Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar (19 May 1890 – 23 January 1967), popularly known as Ariyakudi, was a Carnatic music vocalist, born in Ariyakudi, a town in the present-day Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu.
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Aruna Sairam
Sangita Kalanidhi Aruna Sairam is an Indian classical vocalist and carnatic music singer.
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Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema.
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Ashwin Batish
Ashwin Kumar Batish Hindi: अश्विन कुमार बातिश (born 1 January 1951 in Bombay, India) is an Indian sitar and tabla player.
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Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) is an English electronic music band that combines musical styles including rap rock, dub, dancehall, ragga, and South Asian music.
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Asian Underground
Asian underground is a term associated with various British Asian, South Asian Canadian, and South Asian American musicians (mostly Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan) who blend elements of Western underground dance music and the traditional Asian music of their home countries in South Asia.
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Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
Assamese people
The Assamese people are a socio-ethnic linguistic identity that has been described at various times as nationalistic or micro-nationalistic.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Avial (band)
Avial are an Indian alternative rock band formed in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India in 2003, and known for their Malayalam lyrics.
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Śārṅgadeva
Śārṅgadeva (1175–1247) (शार्ङ्गदेव), also spelled Sharngadeva or Sarnga Deva, was a 13th-century Indian musicologist who authored Sangita Ratnakara – a Sanskrit text on music and drama.
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Baba Sehgal
Harjeet Singh "Baba" Sehgal, is an Indian rapper.
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BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.
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Baithak Gana
Baithak Gana (Caribbean Hindustani: बैठक गाना) is a form of music originating in Suriname by the Indian community.
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Balakanda
Bala Kanda (बालकाण्ड; IAST: ') is the first Book of the Valmiki Ramayana. The Bala Kanda, in partif not in its entiretyis generally regarded as an interpolation to the original epic.
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Balakrushna Dash
Balakrushna Dash was born on May 15 1923 in Puri,Odisha.
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Bally Sagoo
Baljit Singh "Bally" Sagoo (Punjabi: ਬਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੱਗੂ) is a British-Indian record producer and DJ.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.
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Bansuri
A bansuri is an ancient side-blown bamboo flute originating from the Indian subcontinent.
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Baripada
Baripada is a city and a municipality in Mayurbhanj district in the state of Odisha, India.
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Barrel drum
Barrel drums are a class of membranophone, or drum, characterized by a barrel-shape with a bulge in the middle.
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Baz Luhrmann
Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director, producer, writer, and actor.
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Beat Konducta
Beat Konducta is an 8-album series released by hip hop musician Madlib.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Beno
Beno is a name of various origins.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Bhajan
Bhajan refers to any devotional song with a religious theme or spiritual ideas, specifically among Dharmic religions, in any language.
Bhangra (music)
Bhangra is a type of non-traditional music of Punjab originating from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.
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Bharatanatyam
Bharatanatyam is an Indian classical dance form that originated in Tamil Nadu, India.
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Bhimbetka rock shelters
The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period.
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Bhopa
The Bhopa people are the priest-singers of the folk deities in the state of Rajasthan, India.
Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Odisha, located in the Khordha district.
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Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen Hazarika (8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor, artist, editor, filmmaker, professor and politician from Assam, widely known as Sudha Kontho (meaning cuckoo, literally "nectar-throated").
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Biag ni Lam-ang
Biag ni Lam-ang is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.
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Bicol Region
The Bicol Region, commonly shortened to Bicol and designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines.
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Bihu
Bihu is of three types and it is an important cultural festival unique to the Indian state of Assam – 'Rongali' or 'Bohag Bihu' observed in April, 'Kongali' or 'Kati Bihu' observed in October or November, and 'Bhogali' or 'Magh Bihu' observed in January.
Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo.
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Bloodywood
Bloodywood is an Indian heavy metal band from New Delhi, formed in 2016.
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Bombay Bicycle Club
Bombay Bicycle Club is an English indie rock band from Crouch End, London, consisting of Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Suren de Saram, and Ed Nash.
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Bombay Dreams
Bombay Dreams is a Bollywood-themed musical, with music by A. R. Rahman, lyrics by Don Black and the book by Meera Syal and Thomas Meehan, originally produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Bombay Jayashri
"Bombay" Jayashri Ramnath is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer, and musician.
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Bombay Rockers
Bombay Rockers is a Danish-Indian band, popular in India.
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Bombay Vikings
Bombay Vikings are a pop group that combine Indian pop and classical music, formed in 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Borgeet
Borgeets (translit) are a collection of lyrical songs that are set to specific ragas but not necessarily to any tala.
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Brimful of Asha
"Brimful of Asha" is a song by English alternative rock band Cornershop from their third album, When I Was Born for the 7th Time (1997).
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Bullock cart
A bullock cart or ox cart (sometimes called a bullock carriage when carrying people in particular) is a two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen.
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C. Ramchandra
Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar (12 January 1918 – 5 January 1982), also known as C. Ramchandra or Chitalkar or Anna Sahib, was an Indian music director and playback singer.
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Calcutta School of Music
The Calcutta School of Music established in 1915 by Phillipe Sandre is an institution in India, in the field of Western Classical music and Contemporary classical music.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the rock band Santana.
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Carnatic music
Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
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Caste
A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.
Caste system in India
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
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Celt (tool)
In archaeology, a celt is a long, thin, prehistoric, stone or bronze tool similar to an adze, hoe, or axe.
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Chaiti
Chaiti are semi-classical songs, originating from the Indian subcontinent, sung in the Hindu calendar month of Chait.
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.
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Charkhi Dadri district
Charkhi Dadri District is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in north west India near Rajasthan border, but not sharing border with Rajasthan.
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Chateau Benares
Chateau Benares is an album by Sanjay Mishra, released in 2006.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
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Chhau dance
Chhau, also spelled Chhou, is a semi classical Indian dance with martial and folk traditions.
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Chicago (2002 film)
Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name.
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China Gate (1998 film)
China Gate is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi.
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Chowk.com
Chowk.com was a website with a focus on the current affairs, politics and cultural aspects of India and Pakistan.
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Chutney music
Chutney music (Caribbean Hindustani: चटनी संगीत, 𑂒𑂗𑂢𑂲 𑂮𑂑𑂹𑂏𑂲𑂞) is a fusion genre of Indian folk music, specifically Bhojpuri folk music, with Caribbean calypso and soca music, and later with Bollywood music.
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Cilappatikaram
Cilappatikāram (சிலப்பதிகாரம், ചിലപ്പതികാരം, IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), also referred to as Silappathikaram or Silappatikaram, is the earliest Tamil epic.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Clothing in India
Clothing in India varies with the different ethnicities, geography, climate, and cultural traditions of the people of each region of India.
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Colonial Cousins
Colonial Cousins is an Indian duo, formed by singer Hariharan and singer-composer Leslee Lewis, who also have successful solo careers.
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
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Cordillera Administrative Region
The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR; Rehion/Deppaar Administratibo ti Kordiliera; Rehiyong Pampangasiwaan ng Cordillera), also known as the Cordillera Region and Cordillera, is an administrative region in the Philippines, situated within the island of Luzon.
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Cornershop
Cornershop are an English indie rock band best known for their single "Brimful of Asha", originally released in 1997 and, in a remixed version, topping the UK chart in 1998.
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Dadra
Dadra is associated with the Hindustani classical music of the Indian subcontinent.
Daf
Daf (دف), also known as dâyere and riq, is a Middle Eastern (mainly Iranian) frame drum musical instrument, used in popular and classical music in South and Central Asia.
Daily News and Analysis
The Daily News and Analysis, abbreviated as DNA, is a Hindi-language news program on Zee news that was earlier a newspaper with multiple local city editions across India.
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Daler Mehndi
Daler Singh (born 18 August 1967), better known as Daler Mehndi, is an Indian singer, songwriter, author, and record producer.
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Dalit
Dalit (from dalita meaning "broken/scattered") is a term first coined by the Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent.
Damphu drum
A damphu, or damfoo (Nepali: डम्फु), is a percussion instrument similar to a large tambourine.
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Dance
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.
Dancing Girl (sculpture)
Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about –1751 BC in the Indus Valley civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), which was one of the earliest cities.
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Dandiya Raas
Raas or Dandiya Raas is the socio-religious folk dance originating from Indian state of Gujarat and popularly performed in the festival of Navaratri.
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Dangdut
Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian folk music that is partly derived and fused from Hindustani, Arabic and to lesser extent, Malay, Javanese, Sundanese and local folk music.
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Danny Boyle
Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer.
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Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.
Delhi 2 Dublin
Delhi 2 Dublin (sometimes abbreviated D2D) is a Canadian world music group formed in 2006 in Vancouver who play a fusion of Bhangra, electronic, funk, dub, reggae, hip hop, Celtic music and a mashup of other genres.
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Delhi Music Academy
Delhi Music Academy is a music school in the Indian capital New Delhi training students in both instrumental and vocal music.
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Delhi School of Music
The Delhi School of Music, established by the Delhi Music Society, teaches Western classical music.
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Demonic Resurrection
Demonic Resurrection is a symphonic death metal band from Mumbai, India, formed in 2000.
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Dennis Chambers
Dennis Milton Chambers (born May 9, 1959) is an American jazz fusion and funk drummer.
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Devdas (2002 Hindi film)
Devdas is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bharat Shah under his banner, Mega Bollywood.
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Devika Chawla
Devika Chawla, known by her Artist Identity "Devika" is a US based singer / songwriter of Indian origin known for her unique voice and soulful performances. While she has trained in Hindustani classical music, she has always been at the forefront of fusion between Indian folk/classical melody & lyrics and a western sound.
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Dhak (instrument)
The dhak is a huge membranophone instrument from Bengal and Assam.
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Dhamar (music)
Dhamar is one of the talas used in Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent.
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Dhantal
The dhantal (dandtal) is a long steel rod based percussion instrument (sounding similar to the triangle), which was adapted from the iron "bows" which yoked the oxen that pulled the carts on the estates in Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, other parts of the Caribbean.
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Dhol
Dhol can refer to any one of a number of similar types of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variations, throughout the Indian subcontinent.
Dholak
The dholak is a two-headed hand drum, a folk percussion instrument.
Dhoom 2
Dhoom 2, also known as Dhoom 2: Back in Action, is a 2006 Indian caper action film directed by Sanjay Gadhvi and written by Vijay Krishna Acharya, based on a story by Aditya Chopra, who produced the film under Yash Raj Films.
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Dhrupad
Dhrupad is a genre in Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent.
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Dil Jo Bhi Kahey...
Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... is a 2005 Indian romantic drama film directed by Romesh Sharma.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
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DJ Logic
DJ Logic (born Lee Jason Kibler, 1972) is an American DJ primarily known for his work in nu-jazz, acid-jazz, and with jam bands.
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DJ Quik
David Marvin Blake (born January 18, 1970), better known by his stage names DJ Quik or Da Quiksta, is an American rapper and record producer from Compton, California, known for his production in the G-funk style of West Coast hip-hop.
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Domkach
Domkach or Damkach is a folk dance of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhesh province of Nepal.
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Don (1978 film)
Don is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Chandra Barot from a story written by Salim–Javed and produced by Nariman Irani.
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Don't Phunk with My Heart
"Don't Phunk with My Heart" censored as "Don't Mess with My Heart" is a song recorded by American group the Black Eyed Peas for their fourth studio album Monkey Business (2005).
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Dotara
The dotara (or dotar) (দোতোৰা dûtûra, দোতারা, দোতোৰা dotora, literally, “Of two strings”) is a two-stringed, plucked musical instrument from South Asia, with most contemporary models having four playing strings (similar to the sarod).
Dotdash Meredith
Dotdash Meredith (formerly The Mining Company, About.com and Dotdash) is an American digital media company based in New York City.
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Dr. Dre
Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr.
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Dreamgirls (film)
Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.
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Drut
Drut (द्रुत; also called drut laya) is the concluding section, in fast tempo (or laya), between 160 and 320 beats per minute, of the performance of a vocal raga in Hindustani classical music.
Eastern Fare Music Foundation
The Eastern Fare Music Foundation is a music school, as well as a production and publishing house in Guwahati, Assam, India.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Eight Miles High
"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a. Roger McGuinn), and David Crosby.
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Ekasarana Dharma
Ekasarana Dharma is a neo-Vaishnavite Hindu monolithic Hindu vaishnav sect propagated by Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th-16th century in the Indian state of Assam.
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Electronic body music
Electronic body music (EBM) is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with elements of dance music.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electropop
Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles.
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Emmie te Nijenhuis
Emmie te Nijenhuis (born 11 November 1931) is a Dutch ethnomusicologist of the music of India.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
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Erick Sermon
Erick Sermon (born November 25, 1968) is an American rapper and producer.
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Euphoria (Indian band)
Euphoria (Bangla: ইউফোরিয়া, Hindi: युफ़ोरिया) is an Indian pop rock band formed by Dr.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
Filmi
Filmi music soundtracks are music produced for India's mainstream motion picture industry and written and performed for Indian cinema.
Firstpost
Firstpost is an Indian news website owned by Network18 Group, which also runs CNN-News18 and CNBC TV18.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Gaana
Gaana (or Gānā) is a genre of Tamil music, which is sung in the Madras Bashai dialect of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Gandharva
A gandharva is a member of a class of celestial beings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, whose males are divine performers such as musicians and singers, and the females are divine dancers.
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Garba (dance)
Garba (Gujarati: ગરબા) is a form of Gujarati dance which originates from the state of Gujarat, India.
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Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November 1930 – 20 July 1972) was an Indian classical and playback singer.
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George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Ghantasala (musician)
Ghantasala Venkateswararao (4 December 1922 – 11 February 1974), known mononymously by his surname as Ghantasala, was an Indian playback singer and film composer known for his works predominantly in Telugu and Kannada cinema and also in Tamil, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi language films.
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Ghazal
The ghazal is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry.
Ghoomar
Ghoomar or ghumar is a traditional folk dance of Rajasthan.
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Giddha
Giddha (گدها, ਗਿੱਧਾ) is a popular folk dance of women in the Punjab region.
Goa
Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.
Goa trance
Goa trance is an electronic dance music style that originated in the early 1990s in the Indian state of Goa.
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Goans in Hindi film music composition
This article is about the contribution of Goans to the musical composition of Bollywood songs, associated with the Filmi genre.
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Gong
A gongFrom Indonesian and gong; ꦒꦺꦴꦁ gong; p; どら|dora; គង kong; ฆ้อง khong; cồng chiêng; কাঁহ kãh is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Gopal Chandra Panda
Pandit Gopal Chandra Panda (born 1940) is a Guru of Odissi classical music, vocalist, researcher and composer.
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Government of India
The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.
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Greater India
Greater India, also known as the Indian cultural sphere, or the Indic world, is an area composed of several countries and regions in South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Indian culture, which itself formed from the various distinct indigenous cultures of South Asia.
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Gurdas Maan
Gurdas Maan (born 4 January 1957) is an Indian singer, songwriter and actor mainly associated with Punjabi language music and films.
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Gurmukhi
Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ,, Shahmukhi: گُرمُکھی|rtl.
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Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
Hadhramaut
Hadhramaut (Ḥaḍramawt / Ḥaḍramūt; Hadramautic: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩, Ḥḍrmt) is a geographic region in South Arabia, comprising eastern Yemen, parts of western Oman and southern Saudi Arabia.
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Hans Raj Hans
Hans Raj Hans is an Indian singer and politician.
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Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan Anantha Subramani (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback, bhajan and ghazal singer who predominantly sings in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu languages.
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Harris Jayaraj
Harris Jayaraj (born 8 January 1975) is an Indian composer from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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Haruomi Hosono
, sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.
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Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.
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Heart Full of Soul
"Heart Full of Soul" is a song recorded by the English rock group the Yardbirds in 1965.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Helen (actress)
Helen Ann Richardson Khan (née Richardson; born 21 November 1938), known mononymously as Helen, is an Indian actress and dancer.
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Hemant Kumar
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar was a legendary Indian music director and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, as well as other Indian languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu.
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Heptatonic scale
A heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches, or tones, per octave.
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Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, songwriter, film and music producer, and actor in Hindi cinema, with over 1300 songs to his credit as a music director.
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Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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Hindi film music
Hindi film songs, more formally known as Hindi Geet or filmi songs and informally known as Bollywood music, are songs featured in Hindi films.
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Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.
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Hindu texts
Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
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Hinduism in Southeast Asia
Hinduism in Southeast Asia had a profound impact on the region's cultural development and its history.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent's northern regions.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world.
Hira Devi Waiba
Hira Devi Waiba (9 September 1940 – 19 January 2011) was an Indian folk singer in the Nepali-language and is hailed as the pioneer of Nepali folk songs.
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Historical Vedic religion
The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes called "Ancient Hinduism", constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).
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Holi
Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring.
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (HAHK) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film written and directed by Sooraj Barjatya and produced by Rajshri Productions.
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Husan (song)
"Husan" is a bhangra dance song produced by British duo Bhangra Knights, which consisted of Jules Spinner and Jack Berry, and Dutch duo Husan, which consisted of Niels Zuiderhoek and Jeroen Den Hengst.
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Hyderabad State
Hyderabad State or Hyderabad Deccan was a kingdom, country, and princely state in the Deccan with its capital at the city of Hyderabad.
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Hyderabadi Muslims
Hyderabadi Muslims, also referred to as Hyderabadis, are a community of Deccani people, from the area that used to be the princely state of Hyderabad in the regions of Marathwada, Telangana, and Kalyana-Karnataka.
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Ifugao people
The Ifugao people are the ethnic group inhabiting Ifugao province in the Philippines.
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Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesigan, 3 June 1943) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for his works in Indian cinema, predominately in Tamil and Telugu films.
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Ilocano people
The Ilocanos (Tattao nga Iloko/Ilokano), Ilokanos, or Iloko people are the third largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.
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Ilocos Region
The Ilocos Region (Rehion/Deppaar ti Ilocos; Sagor na Baybay na Luzon/Rehiyon Uno; Rehiyon ng Ilocos), designated as Region I, is an administrative region of the Philippines.
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Imphal
Imphal is the capital city of the Indian state of Manipur.
Impressions (John Coltrane album)
Impressions is an album of live and studio recordings by the jazz musician and composer John Coltrane.
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Indian art
Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk.
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Indian classical dance
Indian classical dance, or Shastriya Nritya, is an umbrella term for different regionally-specific Indian classical dance traditions, rooted in predominantly Hindu musical theatre performance,, Quote: All of the dances considered to be part of the Indian classical canon (Bharata Natyam, Chhau, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi, Sattriya, and Yakshagana) trace their roots to religious practices (...) the Indian diaspora has led to the translocation of Hindu dances to Europe, North America and the world." the theory and practice of which can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra.
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Indian classical music
Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.
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Indian diaspora
Overseas Indians (ISO), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are Indians who reside or originate outside of India. According to the Government of India, Non-Resident Indians are citizens of India who currently are not living in India, while the term People of Indian Origin refers to people of Indian birth or ancestry who are citizens of countries other than India (with some exceptions).
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Indian folk music
Indian folk music is diverse because of India's enormous cultural diversity.
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Indian honorifics
Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships.
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Indian Music Industry
The Indian Music Industry (IMI) is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in India.
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Indian Ocean (band)
Indian Ocean is an Indian rock band formed in New Delhi in 1990, who are widely recognized as the pioneers of the fusion rock genre in India.
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Indian pop
Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop, refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema.
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Indian religions
Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.
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Indian rock
Indian rock is a music genre in India that may incorporate elements of Indian music with rock music, and is often topically India-centric.
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Indian South Africans
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Indianisation
Indianisation also known as Indianization, may refer to the spread of Indian languages, culture, diaspora, cuisines, economic reach and impact.
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Indo-Canadians
Indo-Canadians or Indian Canadians, are Canadians who have ancestry from India.
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Indo-Caribbean music
Indo-Caribbean music is the musical traditions of the Indo-Caribbean people of the Caribbean music area.
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Indo-Caribbeans
Indo-Caribbeans or Indian-Caribbeans are people in the Caribbean who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent.
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Indo-Fijians
Indo-Fijians (Fiji ke Hindustani), also known as Indian Fijians (also colloquially known as "Findians" or "Findus"), are Fijian citizens of South Asian descent, and include people who trace their ancestry to various regions of the Indian subcontinent.
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Indosphere
Indosphere is a term coined by the linguist James Matisoff for areas of Indian linguistic influence in the neighboring Southern Asian, Southeast Asian, and East Asian regions.
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Indus Creed
Indus Creed is an Indian rock band based in Mumbai.
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Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.
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Information technology in India
The information technology (I.T.) industry in India comprises information technology services and business process outsourcing.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jack Nicklaus
Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940), nicknamed "the Golden Bear", is a retired American professional golfer and golf course designer.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
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Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur, also known as Tatanagar, is the largest and the most populous city in Jharkhand and the first planned industrial city of India.
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Jana Gana Mana
Jana Gana Mana (Bengali: জান গান মানুষ) is the national anthem of the Republic of India.
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Jatin–Lalit
Jatin–Lalit is a renowned Indian music director duo consisting of brothers Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit.
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Jawahar Wattal
Jawahar Wattal is an Indian cultural entrepreneur, music director and producer, best known for being a pioneer in the Indian non-filmi music field and for shifting the focus of the industry to Delhi.
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Jay Sean
Kamaljit Singh Jhooti (born 26 March 1981), better known by the stage name Jay Sean, is a British singer and songwriter.
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Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.
Jayadeva
Jayadeva (born), also spelt Jaideva, was a Sanskrit poet during the 12th century.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jazz in India
Jazz music in India originated in the 1920s in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) and in Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), where African-American jazz musicians performed.
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Jazzy B
Jaswinder Singh Bains (born 1 April 1975), better known by his stage name Jazzy B, is an Indo-Canadian singer and songwriter of Punjabi music, he has also worked in Indian films mainly Punjabi and Hindi.
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 194410 January 2023) was an English guitarist.
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Jerry Garcia
Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s.
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Jhumair
Jhumair or Jhumar is an Indian folk dance from the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar and West Bengal.
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Jogi (caste)
The Jogi (also spelled Jugi or Yogi) is a Bhramin Hindu community found in North India.
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John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.
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John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu, is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer.
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Juggy D
Jagwinder Singh Dhaliwal (Punjabi: ਜਗਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ, born 19 November 1977), is an English singer of Indian descent from Southall, London.
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K. J. Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (/jeːʃud̪aːs/; born 10 January 1940) is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs.
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K. S. Chithra
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963) is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician.
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K. V. Mahadevan
Krishnankoil Venkadachalam Mahadevan (14 March 1918 – 21 June 2001) was an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician who won the inaugural National Film Award for Best Music Direction in (1967) for Kandan Karunai.
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Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher (born 7 July 1973) is an Indian music composer and singer.
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Kajari
Kajari is a folk song and dance genre from Uttar Pradesh, in India.
Kalpanaswaram
In Carnatic Music, Kalpanaswaram (also called swarakalpana (spelt alternatively as svarakalpana), manodharmaswara or simply swaras), is melo-rhythmic raga improvisation in a specific tala.
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Kalyanji–Anandji
Kalyanji–Anandji were an Indian composer duo: Kalyanji Virji Shah (30 June 1928 – 24 August 2000) and his brother Anandji Virji Shah (born 2 March 1933).
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Kapil Srivastava
Kapil Srivastava (born 23 June) is an Indian guitarist, music author, composer, trainer from New Delhi.
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Kathak
Kathak (Devanagari: कथक) is one of the nine major forms of Indian classical dance.
Kathakali
Kathakali (IAST: Kathakaḷi കഥകളി) is a traditional form of classical Indian dance, and one of the most complex forms of Indian theatre.
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Kavita Krishnamurti
Sharada Krishnamurthy, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer.
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Keller Williams
Keller Williams is an American singer, songwriter and musician who combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, along with other assorted genres.
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Kendang
A kendang or gendang (translit, translit, translit, Tausug/Bajau/Maranao: gandang, Bugis: gendrang and Makassar: gandrang or ganrang) is a two-headed drum used by people from the Indonesian Archipelago.
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Kendara
The kendara is a wooden string instrument.
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Khalji dynasty
The Khalji or Khilji (خلجي) dynasty was the second dynasty which ruled the Delhi sultanate, covering large parts of the Indian subcontinent for nearly three decades between 1290 and 1320.
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Khartal
Khartal is an ancient instrument mainly used in devotional / folk songs.
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Khol
The khol is a terracotta two-sided drum used in northern and eastern India for accompaniment with devotional music (bhakti).
Khon
Khon (โขน) is a dance drama genre from Thailand.
Khyal
Khyal or Khayal (ख़याल / خیال) is a major form of Hindustani classical music in the Indian subcontinent.
Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar (born Abhas Kumar Ganguly;; 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor.
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KK (singer)
Krishnakumar Kunnath (23 August 1968 – 31 May 2022), popularly known as KK, was an Indian playback singer.
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KM Music Conservatory
KM Music Conservatory (KMMC) is a higher education institution founded in 2008 by the A. R. Rahman foundation.
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Ko Ko Korina
"Ko Ko Korina" (Urdu) is a song which appeared in the 1966 Urdu-language film Armaan and is considered the first pop song of Pakistan, and often of all South Asia.
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Krishna Das (singer)
Krishna Das (IAST: Kṛṣṇa dāsa; born Jeffrey Kagel; May 31, 1947) is an American vocalist known for his performances of Hindu devotional music known as kirtan (chanting the names of God).
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Kryptos (band)
Kryptos is an Indian heavy metal band from Bangalore, India, formed in 1998 by Nolan Lewis (vocals/guitars) and Ganesh K. (bassist).
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Kuchipudi
Kuchipudi (Telugu: కూచిపూడి నృత్యం) is one of the eight major Indian classical dances.
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Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs.
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Kunal Ganjawala
Kunal Ganjawala (born 14 April 1972) is an Indian playback singer whose songs are mostly featured in Hindi and Kannada films.
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Kusha (Ramayana)
Kusha (कुश) and his younger twin brother Lava were the children of Rama and Sita.
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Kutiyapi
The kutiyapi, or kudyapi, is a Philippine two-stringed, fretted boat-lute.
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Lagaan
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, or simply Lagaan, is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language epic period musical sports drama film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker.
Lakhon chatri
Lakhon chatri (ละครชาตรี) is a genre of dance-drama from Central Thailand and is closely related to the Nora of Southern Thailand.
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Lakhon nai
Lakhon nai (ละครใน) is a Thai performing art originating in the royal court of Thailand (formerly Siam).
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Lakhon nok
Lakhon nok (ละครนอก) is a genre of theatre originating from the Ayutthaya era.
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Lalgudi Jayaraman
Lalgudi Gopala Jayaraman (17 September 1930 – 22 April 2013) was an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer.
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Langha (tribe)
The Langha are a Muslim community found in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat in India.
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Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar (born Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer.
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Laura Marling
Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is an English folk singer-songwriter.
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Lava (Ramayana)
Lava (लव) and his elder twin brother Kusha, are the children of Rama and Sita in Hindu tradition.
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Lavani
Lavani is a genre of music popular in Maharashtra, India.
Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Laxmikant–Pyarelal were an Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940).
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Lennon–McCartney
Lennon–McCartney was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (1940–1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942) of the Beatles.
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Leon Abbey
Leon Alexander Anthony Abbey (May 7, 1900 – September 1975) was an American jazz violinist and bandleader.
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Leslee Lewis
Leslee Peter Lewis (formerly spelled Leslie and Lesle; born 20 June 1960), popularly known as Lezz Lewis, is an Indian singer and composer known for his work with Hariharan as the duo Colonial Cousins.
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List of cultural and regional genres of music
Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, religious or linguistic group.
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List of Indian artists
This is a list of notable artists who were born in India and or have a strong association with India.
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List of Indian musical instruments
Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.
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Love You To
"Love You To" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver.
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Lucky Ali
Maqsood Mahmood Ali (born 19 September 1958), better known as Lucky Ali, is an Indian singer, songwriter, and actor.
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Luzon
Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.
Lyre
The lyre is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments.
M. Balamuralikrishna
Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (6 July 1930 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor.
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M. S. Subbulakshmi
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer.
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M. S. Viswanathan
Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry.
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M1 helmet
The M1 helmet is a combat helmet that was used by the U.S. military from World War II until 1985, when it was succeeded by the PASGT helmet.
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Madal
The madal (मादल) or maadal is a Nepalese folk musical instrument.
Madan Mohan (composer)
Madan Mohan Kohli (25 June 1924 – 14 July 1975), better known as Madan Mohan, was an Indian music director of the 1950s, 1960s and the 1970s.
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Madhava Kandali
Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (circa. 14th century) was an Indian poet from the state of Assam.
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Madhavdev
Madhavdev (1489–1596) (Pron: ˈʃrɪ ˈʃrɪ ˈmɑ:dəbˌdeɪv) is an important preceptor of the Ekasarana Dharma known for his loyalty to his guru, Srimanta Sankardev as well as his artistic brilliance.
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Madhushree
Madhushree (born Sujata Bhattacharya, 2 November 1969) is an Indian playback singer who sings in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Telugu films.
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Madhyalaya
Madhya laya or Madhyalaya is a medium tempo of a rhythm in Indian classical music.
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Madlib
Otis Jackson Jr. (born October 24, 1973), known professionally as Madlib, is an American DJ, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, and rapper.
Madras Music Season
Chennai Music Season is an event hosted every Mid November–January in Chennai (formerly known as Madras) Tamil Nadu.
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Madurai Mani Iyer
Madurai Mani Iyer (மதுரை மணி ஐயர்; 25 October 1912 – 8 June 1968) was an Indian Carnatic music singer, who was famous for his unique style.
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Maguindanao people
The Maguindanaon people are an Austronesian ethnic group from the Philippines.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
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Malkit Singh
Malkit Singh, MBE (ਮਲਕੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ) (Malkit Singh Boparai; born c. 1963) is an England-based Punjabi bhangra singer.
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Manganiar
The Manganiar are a Muslim community found in the Thar Desert region of Rajasthan, India; mostly in the districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer, and in the districts of Tharparkar and Sanghar in the bordering province of Sindh in Pakistan.
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Manipur
Manipur (Kangleipak|) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.
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Manipuri dance
Manipuri dance, also referred to as the Manipuri Raas Leela (script), is a jagoi and is one of the major Indian classical dance forms, originating from the state of Manipur. It is one of the greatest cultural achievements of the traditional Vaishnavism adhering Meitei people of Manipur. Owing to the Meitei civilization, the classical dance form, first formally developed by Meitei Hindu king Rajarshi Bhagyachandra of the Kingdom of Manipur, is considered to be the highest spiritual expression of the worship of Hindu deity Krishna.
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Manna Dey
Prabodh Chandra Dey (May 1, 1919 − October 24, 2013), known by his stage name Manna Dey, was a renowned Indian playback singer, music director, and musician.
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Manobo
The Manobo (sometimes also spelled Manuvu, Menuvu, or Minuvu) are an indigenous peoples from Mindanao in the Philippines, whose core lands cover most of the Mindanao island group, from Sarangani island into the Mindanao mainland in the regions of Agusan, Davao, Bukidnon, Surigao, Misamis, and Cotabato.
Maranao people
The Maranao people (Maranao:; Filipino: Maranaw), also spelled Meranao, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is a predominantly Muslim Filipino ethnic group native to the region around Lanao Lake in the island of Mindanao.
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Marfa (instrument)
Marfa (مرفع, مرفع) also Timki is a single hemispherical drum or percussion instrument.
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Marfa (music)
The Marfa is a form of celebratory rhythmic music and dance from Hyderabad, India, among the Hyderabadi Muslims, adapted from Afro-Arab music of Hadhramawt in Yemen.
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Marga Sangeet
Marga Sangeet is the use of music to find path to moksha.
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness of intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural expressions.
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Matra (music)
In Indian classical music, a Matra is a beat, the smallest rhythmic sub-unit of a tala - the musical meter.
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Maturaikkāñci
Maduraikanchi, is an ancient Tamil poem in the Sangam literature.
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Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
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McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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Mehli Mehta
Mehli Mehta (25 September 1908 – 19 October 2002) was an Indian conductor and violinist.
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Mehnaz Begum
Mehnaz Begum (مہناز بیگم, 1958 – 19 January 2013) was a Pakistani TV, radio, and film singer.
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Meitei people
The Meitei people, Meetei,P.20: "historically, academically and conventionally Manipuri prominently refers to the Meetei people."P.24: "For the Meeteis, Manipuris comprise Meeteis, Lois, Kukis, Nagas and Pangal." Manipuri people is an ethnic group native to Manipur.
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Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
Menaka
Menaka is a apsara (heavenly nymph) in Hindu literature.
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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Mile Sur Mera Tumhara
"Ek Sur" or "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" as it is better known, is an Indian song and accompanying video promoting national integration and unity in diversity.
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
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Military Music Wing
The Military Music Wing of the Army Education Corps is an educational institution that supports the Indian Army and all military bands and musicians in its ranks.
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Mizo music
Mizoram is a region in India.
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Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer.
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Mohiniyattam
Mohiniyattam (മോഹിനിയാട്ടം) is an Indian classical dance form originating from the state of Kerala.
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Mother India
Mother India is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar.
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Motherjane
Motherjane is an Indian rock band that initially started in Kochi and was formed in 1996.
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Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.
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Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
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Mukesh (singer)
Mukesh Chand Mathur (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976), better known mononymously as Mukesh, was an Indian playback singer.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band formed in London in 2007.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Music of Assam
The music of Assam consists various genres of folk and modern music, drawing its artistic basis from the history of Assam, from Assamese culture and its ancient traditions.
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Music of Bengal
Bengali music (বাংলা সংগীত) comprises a long tradition of religious and secular song-writing over a period of almost a millennium.
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Music of Bihar
Bihar, a state of India, has produced musicians like Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan and dhrupad singers like the Malliks (Darbhanga Gharana) and the Mishras (Bettiah Gharana) along with poets like Pandit Dhareekshan Mishra, Bhikhari Thakur, the shakespeare of Bhojpuri and Vidyapati Thakur who contributed to Maithili Music.
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Music of Haryana
Folk music of Haryana has two main forms: classical folk music of Haryana and desi folk music of Haryana (country music of Haryana).
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Music of Indonesia
Indonesia is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles.
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Music of Ireland
Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.
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Music of Latin America
The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States.
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Music of Malaysia
Music of Malaysia is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres in Malaysia.
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Music of Manipur
Manipur is a region of North-East India.
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Music of South Asia
South Asian music comprises a range of prominent musical genres and styles that are unique to the countries in and around the Indian subcontinent.
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Musical film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
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Musical notation
Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.
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Muthuswami Dikshitar
Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar) (24 March 1776 – 21 October 1835), mononymously Dikshitar, was a South Indian poet, singer and veena player, and a composer of Indian classical music, who is considered one of the musical trinity of Carnatic music.
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Mysore Manjunath
Mysore Manjunath (born in Mysore, India), is an Indian violinist.
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N. Ramani
Natesan Ramani (15 October 1934 – 9 October 2015), commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian Carnatic flautist.
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Nadeem–Shravan
Nadeem–Shravan are Indian music directors duo in the Bollywood film industry of India.
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Namghar
Namghar (নামঘৰ) is a place for congregational worship associated with the entire Assamese community and the Ekasarana sect of Hinduism, in particular, that is native to Assam.
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Nang talung
Nang talung (หนังตะลุง) is a traditional style of shadow puppetry from southern Thailand.
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Naqareh
The naqareh, naqqāra, nagara or nagada is a Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a hide head, usually played in pairs.
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Naresh Sohal
Naresh Sohal (18 September 1939 – 30 April 2018) was a British composer of Indian origin.
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Nataraja
Nataraja (Naṭarājar), also known as Adalvallan, is a depiction of Shiva, one of the main deities in Hinduism, as the divine cosmic dancer.
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National anthem
A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation.
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National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is a multi-venue, multi-purpose cultural centre in Mumbai, India, which aims to promote and preserve India's heritage of music, dance, theatre, film, literature and photography.
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National Institute of Kathak Dance
National Institute of Kathak Dance, also known as Kathak Kendra, is the premier dance institution for the Indian classical dance form of Kathak, and a unit of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, situated in New Delhi.
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Naushad
Naushad Ali (25 December 1919 – 5 May 2006) was an Indian composer for Hindi films.
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Navneet Aditya Waiba
Navneet Aditya Waiba is an Indian singer who primarily sings in Nepali-language and the daughter of the late Hira Devi Waiba, the pioneer of Nepali folk music.
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Nedunuri Krishnamurthy
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy (Telugu: నేదునూరి కృష్ణమూర్తి;10 October 1927 – 8 December 2014) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
New beat
New beat is a Belgian electronic dance music genre that fuses elements of new wave, hi-NRG,Simon Reynolds: Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture. Routledge 1999,, p. 124.
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New Delhi
New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nicotine (band)
Nicotine is a heavy metal band from Indore, India, formed in December 2006.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
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Nihira Joshi
Nihira Joshi (born 10 December 1986) is an Indian singer.
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Niraval
In Carnatic music, Neraval also known as Niraval or Sahitya Vinyasa is the elaboration and improvisation of melody for a particular line.
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Noor Jehan
Noor Jehan, sometimes spelled NoorjehanAshish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002, pp.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Northern Region, Nigeria
Northern Nigeria (or Arewancin Nijeriya) was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures.
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Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", otherwise known as simply "Norwegian Wood", is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
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O. P. Nayyar
Omkar Prasad Nayyar (16 January 1926 – 28 January 2007) was an Indian film music composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician.
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Odisha
Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.
Odissi
Odishi, also referred to as Orissi in old literature, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the temples of Odisha – an eastern coastal state of India.
Odissi music
Odissi music is a genre of classical music in India, originated from the eastern state of Odisha.
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P. Susheela
Pulapaka Suseela (born 13 November 1935) is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema primarily from Andhra Pradesh for over six decades and is referred to as the "Evergreen Nightingale of Indian cinema".
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Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav
Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar.
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Pakhavaj
The pakhavaj is a barrel-shaped, two-headed drum, originating from the Indian subcontinent, the oldest version of double sided drums and its descendants are mridangam of Southern India and kendang of Maritime Southeast Asia and other South Asian double-headed drums.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
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Palghat Mani Iyer
Palghat T. S. Mani Iyer (1912–1981), born Thiruvilvamalai Ramaswamy was one of the leading mridangists in the field of Carnatic music.
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Panchal
Panchal or Panchal-Brahmin (Sanskrit: पांचाल, romanized: Pānchāl) is a Master Craftsman caste of India.
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Panchāpsaras
Panchāpsaras is a lake mentioned in Book III of the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana.
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Panjabi MC
Rajinder Singh Rai (ਰਜਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ; born February 14, 1970), better known by his stage name Panjabi MC, is a British-Indian recording artist, rapper, producer and DJ.
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Pann
PaN (பண்) is the melodic mode used by the Tamil people in their music since the ancient times.
Papon (singer)
Angaraag Mahanta (born 24 November 1975), known by his stagename Papon, is an Indian playback singer and composer from Assam.
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Param Vir
Param Vir is a British composer originally from India.
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Parikrama (band)
Parikrama is a rock band from Delhi, India, formed in 1991 in Delhi.
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Penaz Masani
Penaz Masani is an Indian ghazal singer who started singing in 1981 and has made over 20 albums.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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Performing arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.
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Persian traditional music
Persian traditional music or Iranian traditional music, also known as Persian classical music or Iranian classical music, refers to the classical music of Iran (also known as Persia).
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Piphat
A piphat (วงปี่พาทย์) is a kind of ensemble in the classical music of Thailand, which features wind and percussion instruments.
Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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Playback singer
A playback singer, as they are usually known in South Asian cinema, or ghost singer in Western cinema, is a singer whose performance is pre-recorded for use in films.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Press Trust of India
The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India.
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Pritam
Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, music producer and singer from Kolkata, India.
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
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Psychedelic trance
Psychedelic trance, psytrance, or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.
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Pump organ
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
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Punjab
Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.
Punjab, India
Punjab (Also and other variants) is a state in northwestern India.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
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Purandara Dasa
Srinivasa Nayaka, also known as Purandara Dasa (kannada ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸರು; IAST: Purandara dāsa) (1484 – 1564) was a composer, singer and a Haridasa philosopher from present-day Karnataka, India.
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Qawwali
Qawwali (Urdu:; Hindi: क़व्वाली; Bengali: ক়াওয়ালী; Punjabiਕ਼ੱਵਾਲੀ.) is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing originating in South Asia.
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R. D. Burman
Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994) was an Indian music director and actor, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry.
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Raageshwari Loomba
Raageshwari Loomba is an Indian singer, actress, television personality, mindfulness speaker.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
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Raga
A raga (also raaga or ragam or raag) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode.
Raga rock
Raga rock is rock or pop music with a pronounced Indian influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use of Indian musical instruments, such as the sitar, tambura, and tabla.
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Ragam Thanam Pallavi
Ragam Tanam Pallavi (RTP) is a form of singing in Carnatic music which allows the musicians to improvise to a great extent.
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Raghav
Raghav Mathur (born April 2, 1981), known professionally as Raghav, is a Canadian singer.
Raghav Sachar
Raghav Sachar (born 24 July 1981, in India) is an Indian singer, composer and film scorer.
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Raja Hasan
Raja Hasan is an Indian playback singer who was born in December 1982 in the city of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
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Ram Narayan
Ram Narayan (born 25 December 1927), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player.
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Ramakien
The (รามเกียรติ์,,;; sometimes also spelled) is one of Thailand's national epics.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
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Rambha (apsara)
Rambha is one of the prominent apsaras, the celestial nymphs of Svarga (a heaven), in Hindu mythology.
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Ramhari Das
Pandit Ramhari Das (born 1953) is a leading singer, composer, musicologist and Guru of Odissi music.
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Rang De Basanti
Rang De Basanti is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language epic drama film written, produced, and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.
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Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
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Ravana
Ravana was an ancient mythological king of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Ravanahatha
A ravanahaththa (variant names: ravanhatta, rawanhattha, ravanastron, ravana hasta veena) is an ancient bowed, stringed instrument, used in India, Sri Lanka, and surrounding areas.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.
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Rediff.com
Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website.
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Redman (rapper)
Reginald Noble (born April 17, 1970), better known by his stage name Redman, is an American rapper, DJ, record producer, and actor.
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Reggaeton
Reggaeton, is a modern style of popular music that originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.
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Remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.
Rent (film)
Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Rishi Rich
Rishpal Singh Rekhi (Punjabi: ਰਿਸ਼ਪਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ ਰੈਖੀ, born 30 June 1976 in Croydon), better known by his stage name Rishi Rich, is a British-Indian music producer based in London.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.
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Rubber Soul
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.
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Rudra veena
The Rudra veena (रुद्र वीणा) (also spelled Rudraveena or Rudra vīnā)—also called Bīn in North India—is a large plucked string instrument used in Hindustani Music, especially dhrupad.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
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S. D. Burman
Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer.
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S. Janaki
Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer from Andhra Pradesh.
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S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), shortened as SPB, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer.
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S. P. Charan
Sripathi Panditharadhyula Charan, credited as S. P. Charan, is an Indian playback singer and actor works predominantly works in Tamil cinema and Telugu cinema.
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Sadra (music)
Sadra is a vocal genre of Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent.
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Sagarika
Sagarika Mukherjee, also known as Saag, is an Indian singer and actress.
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Salil Chowdhury
Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films.
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Salim–Sulaiman
Salim–Sulaiman is an Indian score composer duo consisting of siblings Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant.
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Samaveda
The Samaveda (सामवेद,, from सामन्, "song" and वेद, "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants.
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Sanam (band)
Sanam is an Indian pop rock band formed in 2010 currently based in Mumbai, India known for its renditions of old classic Indian Bollywood songs as well as its original music.
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Sangam landscape
The Sangam landscape (Tamil: அகத்திணை "inner classification") is the name given to a poetic device that was characteristic of love poetry in classical Tamil Sangam literature.
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Sangam literature
The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam, Malayalam: സംഘസാഹിത്യം, saṅgha sāhityam), historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ), connotes the early classical Tamil literature and is the earliest known literature of South India.
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Sangeet Natak
Sangeet Natak (Marathi for 'musical drama') is a form of drama which combines prose and poetry in the form of songs to convey the story, similar to musicals.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi
Sangeet Natak Akademi (The National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama in English) is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (IAST: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
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Sangita Ratnakara
The Sangita-Ratnakara, संगीतरत्नाकर, (IAST: Saṃgītaratnākara), literally "Ocean of Music and Dance", is one of the most important musicological texts from India.
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Sanjay Mishra (musician)
Sanjay Mishra is an Indian American musician who began performing after completing his studies at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
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Sanjay Subrahmanyan
Sanjay Subrahmanyan (born 21 January 1968 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu) is a Carnatic musician and vocalist from Chennai, India.
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Sankardev
Srimanta Sankardev (1449–1568) was a 15th–16th century Assamese polymath; a saint-scholar, poet, playwright, dancer, actor, musician, artist social-religious reformer and a figure of importance in the cultural and religious history of the Bhakti movement in Assam. He is credited with building on past cultural relics and devising new forms of music (Borgeet), theatrical performance (Ankia Naat, Bhaona), dance (Sattriya), literary language (Brajavali).
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Sankarjang
Sankarjang (20°52’08“N; 84°59’19“E), Odisha, India is an archaeological site near Angul, a former cemetery and settlement with large, worked stones but no one knows what they were made for, although some people think they might have been part of a lithophone.
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Sanober Kabir
Sanober Kabir is a former Bollywood actress.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Sanskritisation
Sanskritisation (or Sanskritization) is a term in sociology which refers to the process by which castes or tribes placed lower in the caste hierarchy seek upward mobility by emulating the rituals and practices of the dominant castes or upper castes.
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Santoor
The Indian santoor instrument is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer, and a variation of the Iranian santur.
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Sapera
Sapera is a form of dance from India.
Saptakanda Ramayana
Saptakanda Ramayana is the 14th-15th century Assamese version of the Ramayana attributed to the famous Assamese poet Madhava Kandali.
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Sarangi
The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked three-stringed instrument played in traditional music from South Asia – Punjabi folk music, Rajasthani folk music, Sindhi folk music, Haryanvi folk music, Braj folk music, and Boro folk music (there known as the serja) – in Pakistan, South India and Bangladesh.
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Satra (Ekasarana Dharma)
Satra are institutional centers associated with the Ekasarana tradition of Vaishnavism, largely found in the Indian state of Assam and neighboring regions.
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Sattriya
Sattriya (সত্ৰীয়া), or Sattriya Nritya, is a major Indian classical dance.
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Sādhanā
Sādhanā is an ego-transcending spiritual practice.
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Scale (music)
In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency.
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See My Friends
"See My Friends" (sometimes titled "See My Friend") is a song by the English rock band the Kinks, written by the group's singer and guitarist, Ray Davies.
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Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (25 July 1908 – 31 October 2003) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist.
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Shaan (singer)
Shantanu Mukherjee (born 30 September 1972), better known as Shaan, is an Indian playback singer, live performer, composer, actor and television host.
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Shadow play
Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim.
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Shamshad Begum
Shamshad Begum (Hindi: शमशाद बेगम, IAST: Śamśād Bēgam; 14 April 1919 – 23 April 2013) was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.
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Shanachie Records
Shanachie Records is an American, New Jersey–based record label, founded in 1975 by Richard Nevins and Dan Collins.
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Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy is an Indian musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.
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Shankar–Jaikishan
Shankar–Jaikishan (also known as S-J), were an Indian composer duo of the Hindi film industry, working together from 1949 to 1971.
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Shankha
A shankha has religious ritual importance in Hinduism.
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Sharon Prabhakar
Sharon Prabhakar (born 4 August 1955) is an Indian pop singer, theatre personality and public speaker.
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Shatapatha Brahmana
The Shatapatha Brahmana (lit,, abbreviated to 'SB') is a commentary on the Śukla Yajurveda.
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Shehnai
The shehnai, often translated into English as clarinet, is a musical instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent.
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Sheila Chandra
Sheila Savithri Elizabeth Chandra (born 14 March 1965) is an English former pop singer of Indian descent.
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Shillong
Shillong is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India.
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Shiv Dayal Batish
Shiv Dayal Batish (better known as S.D. Batish; 14 December 1914 – 29 July 2006.) was an Indian singer and music director born in Patiala, India.
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Shloka
Shloka or śloka (श्लोक, from the root श्रु, Macdonell, Arthur A., A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, Appendix II, p. 232 (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1927). in a broader sense, according to Monier-Williams's dictionary, is "any verse or stanza; a proverb, saying"; but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita and many other works of classical Sanskrit literature.
Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer.
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Shruti (music)
The shruti or śruti is the smallest interval of pitch that the human ear can detect and a singer or musical instrument can produce.
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Shubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal (born 1959) is an Indian singer, and composer, known for her works in Hindustani classical music, Indian pop, and Tamil cinema.
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Shweta Shetty
Shweta Shetty (also known as Shwetaa in nickname) is an Indian-born German pop singer known for her albums and for her contributions to Bollywood film soundtracks.
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Siddi
The Siddi, also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic minority group inhabiting Pakistan and India.
Silk Road transmission of Buddhism
Buddhism entered Han China via the Silk Road, beginning in the 1st or 2nd century CE.
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Silk Route (band)
Silk Route was an Indian band consisting of Mohit Chauhan (lead vocals, backing guitars, lyrics), Atul Mittal (lead guitars, clarinet, backing vocals), Kem Trivedi (keyboards), and Kenny Puri (percussion and drums).
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Singh Is Kinng
Singh Is Kinng is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee from a screenplay by Bazmee and Suresh Nair.
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Sitar
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup.
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Smriti
Smriti Literature in Hinduism (स्मृति, IAST) The smṛti texts are a body of Hindu texts usually attributed to an author, traditionally written down, in contrast to Śrutis (the Vedic literature) considered authorless, that were transmitted verbally across the generations and fixed.
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.
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So Long, See You Tomorrow (album)
So Long, See You Tomorrow is the fourth album by the London indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club, released on 3 February 2014.
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Soft power
In politics (and particularly in international politics), soft power is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power).
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Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
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Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, dubbing artist and actor.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
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South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.
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Sports film
A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
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Stereotypes of South Asians
Stereotypes of South Asians consist of various generalized beliefs about individuals from South Asia which derive from the region's history and interaction with other cultures and peoples.
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String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh (born 18 July 1971) is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings Bollywood songs.
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Suman Kalyanpur
Suman Kalyanpur (born as Suman Hemmadi; 28 January 1937) is an Indian playback singer who is most notable for her work in Hindi cinema.
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Sunanda Patnaik
Sunanda Patnaik (7 November 1934 – 19 January 2020) was an Indian classical singer of Gwalior gharana from Odisha.
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Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer.
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Suraiya
Suraiya Jamal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004), mononymously known as Suraiya, was an Indian actress and playback singer who worked in Hindi films.
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Suriname
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
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Svara
Svara (Sanskrit: स्वर svara) is a word that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave or saptaka.
Syama Sastri
Syama Sastri (Telugu: శ్యామ శాస్త్రి;; 26 April 1762 – 1827) or Shyama Shastri was a musician and composer of Carnatic music.
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Symphony Orchestra of India
The Symphony Orchestra of India is a symphony orchestra based in Mumbai, India.
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T. M. Krishna
Thodur Madabusi Krishna (born 22 January 1976) is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, writer, activist, author and Ramon Magsaysay awardee.
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T. M. Soundararajan
Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (24 March 1922 – 25 May 2013), popularly known as TMS, was an Indian Carnatic musician and a playback singer in Tamil cinema for over six and a half decades.
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T. N. Seshagopalan
Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan (born, 5 September 1948) is a noted Carnatic singer, musician and composer.
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Taal (instrument)
The taal or manjira (also spelled manjīrā or manjeera), jalra, karatala, kartal or gini is a pair of clash cymbals, originating in the Indian subcontinent, which make high-pitched percussion sounds.
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Tabla
A tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
The Taj Mahal Palace is a heritage, five-star, luxury hotel in the Colaba area of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, situated next to the Gateway of India.
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Tala (music)
A tala (IAST tāla) literally means a 'clap, tapping one's hand on one's arm, a musical measure'.
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Tamang people
The Tamang (Devanagari: तामाङ; tāmāṅ), are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group of Nepal, Southern Bhutan and North India.
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Tamang Selo
Tamang Selo (Nepali: तामाङ सेलो) is a genre of Nepali folk song sung by the Tamang people of Nepal and is widely popular among the Nepali-speaking community in Nepal, in India, and around the world.
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Tamasha
Tamasha (तमाशा) is a traditional form of Marathi theatre, often with singing and dancing, widely performed by local or travelling theatre groups within the state of Maharashtra, India.
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Tamilakam
Tamilakam (Tamiḻakam) was the geographical region inhabited by the ancient Tamil people, covering the southernmost region of the Indian subcontinent.
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Tamils
The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.
Tappa
Tappa is a form of Indian semi-classical vocal music.
Tarana
Tarana is a type of composition in Hindustani classical vocal music in which certain words (e.g. "odani", "todani", "tadeem" and "yalali") based on Persian and Arabic phonemes are rendered at a medium (madhya laya) or fast (drut laya) rate.
Teddy Weatherford
Teddy Weatherford (October 11, 1903 − April 25, 1945) was an American jazz pianist and an accomplished stride pianist.
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Thai art
Thai art refers to a diverse range of art forms created in Thailand from prehistoric times to the present day, including architecture, sculpture, painting, textiles, decorative arts, crafts, ceramics, and more.
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Thai literature
''Samut Thai'', a traditional medium for recordation and transmission of Thai and other literature in mainland Southeast Asia Thai literature is the literature of the Thai people, almost exclusively written in the Thai language (although different scripts other than Thai may be used).
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Thantlang
Thantlang (also Thlantlang or Htantlang in Burmese transliteration) is a town and the administrative center of Thantlang Township in Chin State, western Myanmar (formerly Burma).
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The Age
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964.
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The Casteless Collective
The Casteless Collective is an Indian indie band based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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The Incredible String Band
The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966.
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The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.
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The Inner Light (song)
"The Inner Light" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by George Harrison.
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The Kinks
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.
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The Move
The Move were a British rock band of the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The Tribune (India)
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.
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Thermal and a Quarter
Thermal and a Quarter (often abbreviated as TAAQ) are a rock band from Bangalore, India.
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Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram, commonly shortened to TVM or known by its former name Trivandrum, is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala.
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Thumri
Thumri is a vocal genre or style of Indian music.
Tilottama
Tilottama (Tilottamā), is an apsara (celestial nymph) described in Hindu mythology.
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Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1972), known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapper, and singer.
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Tokari geet
Tokari geet is a type of Assamese folk song sung playing a Tokari.
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Tolkāppiyam
Tolkāppiyam, also romanised as Tholkaappiyam (தொல்காப்பியம், lit. "ancient poem"), is the most ancient extant Tamil grammar text and the oldest extant long work of Tamil literature.
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Tomorrow Never Knows
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
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Traffic (band)
Traffic were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Truth Hurts (singer)
Shari Watson (born October 10, 1971), known as Truth Hurts, is an American R&B singer.
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Tungna
The Tungna (Nepali: टुङ्ना) is a plucked string instrument from the Northern Himalayan region: Nepal, Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan.
Tyagaraja
Sadguru Tyagaraja Swami (Telugu: సద్గురు త్యాగరాజ స్వామి) (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Tyagayya, and in full as Kakarla Tyagabrahmam, was a saint composer and of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music.
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Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves
Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves, formerly called Kattaka caves or Cuttack caves, are partly natural and partly artificial caves of archaeological, historical and religious importance near the city of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India.
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Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi films.
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Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman (born 17 December 1935) is an Indian musician and exponent of the Carnatic percussion instrument, the mridangam.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for the follow-up to major United Nations Summits and Conferences, as well as services to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Second and Third Committees of the United Nations General Assembly.
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United News of India
United News of India, abbreviated as UNI, is a multilingual news agency in India.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Unity in diversity
Unity in diversity is used as an expression of harmony and unity between dissimilar individuals or groups.
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Urvashi
Urvashi (उर्वशी) is the most prominent apsara mentioned in the Hindu scriptures like the Vedas, the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as the Puranas.
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Usha Uthup
Usha Uthup Iyer is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer during the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.
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Vaishali Samant
Vaishali Samant is an Indian music composer, lyricist and playback singer who is popularly known for her work in the Marathi film and music industry.
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Valmiki
Valmiki (Vālmīki) was a legendary poet who is celebrated as the traditional author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text itself.
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Vandana Vishwas
Vandana Vishwas (born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian singer, musician, and composer and architect of Indian descent.
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Vande Mataram
Vande Mātaram (Devanagari: वंदे मातरम् Bengali: বন্দে মাতরম্) is a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s.
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Vande Mataram (album)
Vande Mataram is a 1997 studio album by Indian musician A. R. Rahman.
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Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
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Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
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Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
Vedic period
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age, is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain BCE.
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Veena
The veena, also spelled vina (वीणा IAST: vīṇā), is any of various chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent.
Venu
The venu (Sanskrit: वेणु; /मुरळि; muraļi) is one of the ancient transverse flutes of Indian classical music.
VH1
VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American Basic Cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.
Vidyasagar (composer)
Vidyasagar (born 2 March 1963) is an Indian composer, musician and singer who works predominantly in the Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu film industries.
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Vijayanagara Empire
The Vijayanagara Empire was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India.
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Vilambit
Vilambit (Hindi: विलंबित; also called vilambit laya) is an introductory slow tempo, or laya, between 10 and 40 beats per minute, used in the performance of a raga in Hindustani classical music.
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Vilayat Khan
Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928 – 13 March 2004) was an Indian classical sitar player, considered by many to be the greatest sitarist of his age.
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Village Vanguard
The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City.
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Vocal register
A vocal register is a range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds.
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Voodoo Child (band)
Voodoo Child is a rock and roll band from Guwahati, Assam, India.
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Weddings in India
Weddings in India vary according to the region, the religion, the community and the personal preferences of the bride and groom.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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Why (The Byrds song)
"Why" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by David Crosby and Jim McGuinn and first released as the B-side of the band's "Eight Miles High" single in March 1966.
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Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.
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Within You Without You
"Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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Worldbeat
Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.
Zakir Hussain (musician)
Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951) is an Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer and film actor.
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Zila Khan
Zila Khan is an Indian Sufi singer and actress.
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Zubeen Garg
Zubeen Garg (born Zubeen Borthakur; 18 November 1972) is an Indian singer–songwriter, composer, lyricist, music director, music producer, actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, poet and philanthropist.
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Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.
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3rd millennium
In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar.
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