Word: hindustani
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...cheers. Outside, a crowd waiting for the vote roared its approval and set off celebratory firecrackers. As the parliamentarians stood to sing the national anthem, a Creole woman placed garlands of ribbons around the neck of Prime Minister Henck Arron and Opposition Leader Jaggernath Lachmon, head of the Hindustani Vatan Hitkarie (Progressive Reform) party. Close to tears, the two longtime political opponents embraced...
Like American jazz, the Hindustani music of India is improvisational. The raga is the mode or theme on which the performer improvises spontaneously, developing 95 per cent of the piece originally. It is an unwritten, oral tradition that has been handed down through the generations since about...
...American audience last Saturday, and his unassuming honesty-coupled with his virtuoso elegance-was received with great enthusiasm. The small size of the audience permitted a certain intimacy which provided the atmosphere in which Indian music was meant to be heard. The Brandeis listeners probably sensed little of the Hindustani culture in which the raga is firmly rooted, but they undoubtedly came away with a feeling for the romantic delicacy of Indian music well-performed...
...natives themselves, Thugs terrorized the peasants and bribed the rajahs and landowners to ignore them or protect them. Thugs were often of the Brahman caste. When they were arrested, they were almost invariably released for "lack of evidence." It was as if the Thugs (corrupted from thags, Hindustani for "deceivers") had managed to keep a whole country hypnotized...
...while he was doing graduate work in ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A. in 1962 that Ellis grasped the jazz potential of the complex, repeated beat cycles underlying Asian and Middle Eastern music. With Indian Sitar Player Hari Har Rao, then a member of the U.C.L.A. music faculty, he formed the Hindustani Jazz Sextet to explore musical passages to India; two years ago, he launched his big band...