by Teed Rockwell | Oct 19, 2014 | Entertainment, Music
When I was a student at the Ali Akbar College of Music in Northern California, we were told that Indian film music was a cultural curse that prevented the majority of Indians from appreciating their country’s great classical music. We western students were told to...
by Teed Rockwell | Oct 15, 2013 | Features, General
Fear evolved long before rational intelligence. Consequently, a creature who fears but cannot think very well will make many errors, and it is better for those errors to be false positives than false negatives. If a rabbit fears a rope because it thinks it is a snake,...
by Teed Rockwell | Jul 19, 2013 | Entertainment, Music
BEYOND THE RAGASPHERE. Music by Debashish Bhattacharya. Available from Riverboat/World Music Network at www.debashishbhattacharya.com/beyond-the-ragasphere.html. CD Album: $16.98. Classical Hindustani Slide Guitar? The idea must have seemed strange at first. When Brij...
by Teed Rockwell | Mar 17, 2013 | Entertainment, Music
The Web is now abuzz with the story of three teenage Kashmiri Muslim girls, who were forced to disband their newly popular rock band “Praagaash” because of threats and a fatwa issued by a local cleric. Their facebook page now has over three thousand “likes” from all...
by Teed Rockwell | Mar 15, 2013 | Entertainment, Music
The Web is now abuzz with the story of three teenage Kashmiri Muslim girls, who were forced to disband their newly popular rock band Praagaash because of threats and a Fatwa issued by a local cleric. Their facebook page now has over three thousand “likes” from all...
