Tamizh music directors certainly followed jazz and pop rhythms in many of the 60's songs, but without aping... eg. "Andru vanthathum athey nila" with its characteristic "chachacha" refrain....for aping I would say, Bollywood music directors who just lift tunes wholesale....sorry, I don't like to name names...but there's at least one guy whom we all know about!


On 5/8/06, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>there are other influences. and apings

hmm interesting...illustrate "influence" and "aping" with examples
please :-) now that Opal Mehta is the flavor of the moment...


On 5/8/06, Deepa Mohan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dave...As my present attempts to listen to bands like Rush are not going
> any too well...my ear seems to be in too much of a musical groove...I am
> very appreciative of your attempts to listen to very different music.
> Suresh's selections are pretty good and you can listen to them. Much of our
> old film music did have its roots in classical music, and nowadays there are
> other influences..and apings.
>
> Just keep listening....!
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> On 5/8/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
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> > > As a niekulturny, I can't tell the difference between bollywood music
> > > and the (presumably turkish?) pop songs that get played at the kebab
> > > shop.  What should the neophyte listen for, to distinguish the two?
> > > (and, that having been achieved, what are the relations between film,
> > > hindustani, and carnatic music?)
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> > Given the current state of Bollywood Pop/Hindi songs listen out for a
> > nasal croak which barely passes off as a croon :)
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