[Reader-list] Digital Archiving Hindustani Classical Music

[sanjay ghosh]

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Digital Archiving Hindustani Classical Music for wider dissemination

Digi Archive List should be discontinued. You only get spams (your wife wants a larger organ) and D' Souza's e-invitation on it. 
Then nothing.

Laundry list of conversions from 78s to tape to audio cds ... to mp3 and hopefully within some months to everyone on the net. 

Zohrabai Agrewali (1868-1913)
Gauhar Jan (1873 - 1930)
Vilayat Husain Khan (1892-1962)
Kesarbai Kerkar (1892-1977)
Mogubai Kurdikar (1904-2001)
Alauddin Khan (1862-1972)

Negotiations on / over, to fill in the Dovesongs' North Indian Classical Music Recording Project (a website which would host copyright expired / copyright negotiated audio files, somewhat in the lines of  Project Gutenberg (literature) 

Negotiations on, to get some live recordings on spools to the digital format. Getting hold of old equipment is pretty tough. Especially the suspicion. Why young man are you not chasing pop music on TV ? 

A slow civilisation. Slow changes in the arts. Can yesterday illuminate tomorrow ?

The right wing press hates 'yesterday'. Negroponte to be the next Bremer. Most of them tell you what a great job he's done at the UN for his country. Some even mention a distinguished diplomatic career. Passing mention of Honduras. Nothing on orchestrating the Contra butchery in Nicaragua. Or the apprenticeship (1970-73) in Vietnam ?

The 'tabloidization' of news means - history quickly turns into myth. Less words, more tits. Us and them. Us or them. So that while Rumsfeld puts Hitler, Stalin, Lenin and Ceausescu in the same box, there isn't even a blip of dissent in the global mainstream media. 

Minister of 'culture' Anup Mishra, says Alauddin Khan is a 'bangladeshi' why name a music academy after him ? Had it not been for the illustrious students of this 'bangladeshi' - India's presence on the world's music map would have been put off by half a century. 


sanjay ghosh