The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

The title of Oliver Craske's fascinating and exhaustively researched biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, is something of a ...

The Ravi Shankar Ensemble—a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians curated by Anoushka and Sukanya Shankar— ...

Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth. In a career that spanned decades and continents, ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

Perhaps the key figure in global pop music’s embrace of fluid, immersive sound and oceanic drift over the past several decades, virtuoso sitar player Ravi Shankar has died at age 92, according to the ...

Ravi Shankarwas, without doubt, the “godfather of world music,” as former Beatle George Harrison once proclaimed. But this quietly charismatic Indian music legend,who was 92 when he died Tuesdaynight ...

The world mourned the death this week of Indian maestro Ravi Shankar, whose name became synonymous with the sitar. Tributes eulogized Shankar as the great connector of the East and West who'd ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The late Indian music virtuoso Ravi Shankar taught as a visiting professor at the City College of New York at the height of the hippie era during the 1960s. Shankar died in San ...

Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100... The Enduring Afterglow Of Ravi Shankar's Life In ...