(excerpt) Writer Naresh Fernandes has brought that period to life in a series of landmark essays. He writes: *Until the 1980s, India had no pop music save for Hindi film songs. Millions memorized and hummed the compositions of C Ramachandra, Shankar and Jaikishan, Laxmikant and Pyarelal and SD Burman, whose names rolled by in large letters at the beginning of the movies. But the Sound of India was actually created by Goan musicians, men whose names flickered by in small type under the designation ‘arranger’. It’s clear. The Hindi film classics that resound across the subcontinent and in Indian homes around the world wouldn’t have been made without Goans.* * * *(excerpt)* *(Anthony) Gonsalves has often repeated the story of the day that the information minister told him point-blank that ‘Christian musicians cannot represent India.’*
(Bappachi tang. Aziche lughduh. --venantius j pinto) *Indigenous symphonies* July 2010 *By: Vivek Menezes in HIMAL South Asian* *The absurd condemnation of Western classical music as ‘alien’ led to its calamitous decline in India, which is only now being reversed.* http://www.himalmag.com/Indigenous-symphonies_nw4600.html
