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...Sitar music performer and composer Ravi Shankar...
Pandit Ravi Shankar...
...Shankar, 73, has had an illustrious career as a sitar player and composer...
...signs that rap's primacy may already be getting its first serious challenge. The early warnings are flashing in England, which is second only to the U.S. as a hothouse for the care and nurturing of pop culture. Remember this name, and don't get it confused with Ravi Shankar's greatest hits: ragga. It sounds like reggae on mega-vitamins, bulked-up and bass-pummeled, and it has its origins both in the Caribbean and in an aggressive black awareness. The music is punchy, insinuating and prime for export. Those dreadlocks in Tokyo may stay stylish a while longer...
Ever since George Harrison gathered with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ravi Shankar at Madison Square Garden for the 1971 benefit concert for Bangladesh, philanthropic pop has been a booming business. And in the caring, sharing '90s, a new formula has emerged: the compilation album. Among the best...