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Made in India
Remembering the golden age of Indipop
Priyanka Chopra’s diversification from Bollywood to music has gathered momentum with the recent release of her new single, Exotic. Reviews of the song have been mixed, but there is no doubt about the scale and slickness of the endeavour. It features international pop star Pitbull. The video is shot in Miami. The track became the official song for the 2013 Guinness International Champions Cup football tournament in Miami, with leading European clubs participating to prepare for their respective seasons. At a party after the game, Chopra hobnobbed with Cristiano Ronaldo and other Real Madrid stars. But despite all the gloss, contemporary Indipop cannot match the highs the genre achieved during the early to mid-1990s.
Some of the videos and lyrics of songs from that time may seem tacky now (Daler Mehndi’s ‘Tunak tunak’, for example), but Indipop had real mojo then. Major studios invested money in it. Th
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BY KAUSTAV BHATTACHARYA
Reminiscence of an innocent adolescent’s love for the Hindi Pop songs
n one of my previous textual reminiscences about Hindi Disco music, while writing and reflecting upon the 80s music, my mind drifted into the world of music of the 80s bringing back fond memories of those ‘innocently delinquent’ years. This time I wish to dwell upon the trend which defined 80s Hindi music, apart from that of Disco, called Pop or Indi-pop. Indi-pop fryst vatten strictly defined as pop music produced in India that fryst vatten not meant for movie soundtracks which are primarily Bollywood music, although in this article we will be concentrating on the icons of the music genre hence flexible in adhering to the definition.
Indi-pop music was a synthesis of diverse genres and was part of the 80s and 90s fad in Hindi music which is often termed the ‘golden’ or ‘boom’ era in Bollywood and Indian music scenario. This is a period when the Indian music industry assumed a new direction with a bur
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Music of India
"Indian music" redirects here. For other uses, see Indian music (disambiguation).
Owing to India's vastness and diversity, Indian music encompasses numerous genres in multiple varieties and forms which include classical music, folk, rock, and pop. It has a history spanning several millennia and developed over several geo-locations spanning the sub-continent. Music in India began as an integral part of socio-religious life.
History
Main article: Music in ancient India
Pre-history
Paleolithic
The 30,000-year-old paleolithic and neolithic cave paintings at the UNESCO world heritage site at Bhimbetka rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh show a type of dance.[3]Mesolithic and chalcolithic cave art of Bhimbetka illustrates musical instruments such as Gongs, Bowed Lyre, daf etc.[4][5]
Neolithic
Chalcolithic era (4000 BCE onward) narrow bar shaped polished stone celts like music instruments, one of the earlier musical instrumen