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Reflecting surfaces: the use of elements from Indian music in popular music and jazz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Gerry Farrell
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In this article I explore the manner in which elements from a non-Western music appear in pop music and jazz. The music under discussion is that of the Indian subcontinent and the classical music of North India in particular. The essay covers references to Indian music in pop, rock and jazz from the sixties to the present day but concentrates mainly on the sixties and seventies, and, in the world of pop, on the music of the Beatles. The influence of orientalism on Western music is not a recent phenomena, as Reck (1985) notes, but its appearance in pop during the sixties meant that it reached a larger audience than ever before.

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Popular Music , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , May 1988 , pp. 189 - 205
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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