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Imagine how international listeners feel about music classification systems (nearly every one out there) that clump all international music into 'World Music'.
by alphakappa 12y ago
Imagine how international listeners feel about music classification systems (nearly every one out there) that clump all international music into 'World Music'. Just looking at Indian music, there's probably a few dozen high level categories you can create for completely different genres of music.
North Indian, South Indian, Hindustani, Carnatic, Film music from maybe a dozen different languages that are wildly different, qawwalis, ghazals, Rabindra Sangeet, music from different periods of Indian cinema... I could go on... sigh.
- notatoad 12y agoAre there no Indian music services that do a better job?
- aarohmankad 12y agoThere's Saavn, but it does a mediocre job IMO. http://www.saavn.com/ http://www.saavn.com/
- donniezazen 12y agoI wonder if they are even legal.
- balladeer 12y agoAnd why would you wonder so? Some insight please.
- donniezazen 12y agoCreative industry in Asian country are highly disorganized. For India, one of the best possible way to watch any new content if either in movie theaters or live on television. Internet sucks and cable companies suck too that makes it pretty hard for folks to get content they actually want to watch. Tech savvy folks go for torrents and less techy folks buy pirated content from street vendors. Insight is they are based off NY which makes they impervious to Indian laws. And personally, I haven't come across any good Indian website that gives you impression that you are buying legal content.
- mjklin 12y agoDidn't you hear what the king told the boogie men? "You got to let that raga drop"
- donniezazen 12y agoHalf of the time it doesn't even work.