Turning Bollywood pop into global art
A signature of Bollywood is its music: ''Filmi" songs, by turns gaudy and graceful, have dominated Indian pop culture for a half-century. And of the great ''playback singers," so called because actors lip-synch to their songs, few others are as influential and none as adventurous as Asha Bhosle, the 73-year-old doyenne who performs with the Kronos Quartet, tabla master Zakir ... (Full article: 592 words)
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