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Music Critic John Pareles explores the rendezvous of Indian and Western music in his article 'India Resounding in New York' in today's NYTimes. Bollywood tunes are turning up along-side hip-hop, Western classical music, Indian classical music, rock and jazz, on the radio, in clubs and on broadway.

"The profound improvisations of South Asian classical music — from revered figures like Ravi Shankar as well as younger masters like the tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain — have long been welcome in the city's concert halls, although the classical circuit is largely quiescent in summer....Jazz musicians have been absorbing ideas and collaborating with Indian musicians at least since the 1960's. Hip-hop has latched on to Indian rhythms, most notably last year when Jay-Z added a rap to Panjabi MC's "Mundian To Bach Ke" to remake it as "Beware of the Boys." In New York's clubs, the sounds of Bollywood and other South Asian fusions have been drawing crowds for years: some to dance, some to listen, some to mingle and network.

You can read about the trend here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/music/25INDI.html

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