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Author:	Oliver Craske
Title:	India Sun
Subtitle:	The Life And Music Of Ravi Shankar
Publisher:	Faber & Faber
Country:	UK
Date:	3 Jun 2021
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Biography, Music
ISBN-13:	9780571350865
Total Editions:	2
First Published:	2020
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672 pages. Book dimensions: 12.9 cms x 3.7 cms x 109.8 cms.

From the publisher's website (www link as at 7 June 2022):

A major biography of Ravi Shankar published on the centenary of his birth: the first full portrait of the man & the artist across his extraordinary ninety-two years.

As an icon of India, Ravi Shankar ranks not far below Gandhi or the Taj Mahal. He was one of the twentieth century’s most important musicians, and India’s greatest cultural ambassador. The maestro of the sitar filled the world’s leading concert halls, festival stages & airwaves with Indian classical music at a time when it was little known outside its homeland.

A sensation at Monterey Pop, the Woodstock Festival & the Concert for Bangladesh, he also helped reshape jazz, minimalism & electronic music, pioneered the sitar concerto, and wrote many film scores, including Pather Panchali and Gandhi. He charted the map for countless global musicians who followed in his wake. The unparalleled breadth of his impact is reflected in his disciples, who included George Harrison, John Coltrane, Philip Glass & Yehudi Menuhin.

For this first biography of Ravi Shankar, Oliver Craske has carried out more than 130 new interviews & enjoyed unprecedented access to the Shankar family archives. He presents the first full portrait of the man & the artist, painting a vivid picture of the public & private faces of a captivating, restless workaholic who lived an intense & extraordinary life across ninety-two years. He investigates Shankar’s childhood traumas & youthful stardom as a dancer, his intensive study of the sitar & his leading role in the revival of Indian classical music in his homeland, and his subsequent international career that ultimately made his name synonymous with India. Throughout, this biography seeks to answer the question of what impelled Ravi Shankar on an unending creative & emotional quest.

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