Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 13:53:51 +0100 (BST) From: Caroline Osella <Caroline.Osella-AT-durham.ac.uk> Subject: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan I know it's a long time since BASAS, but I only just got a minute to breathe.... Someone asked where we'd put the above, and a reply came back that he fits in the Guradian-reading world music type of slot. He undoubtedly does, but I think he might be (have been) a bit more polymorhpous than this.... I have several cassettes/ cds of his work, and came to them as follows:- (1) Radio Asia, 558, London-based community radio, breakfast programme back in 92, run in English by young British Asian guy (who was he?? forgot his name) for mixed age but mostly Asian audience. Played a mix of old Lata / Rafi type film songs and newer bhangra / Asian disco type stuff. I have taped from the radio a track introduced by the DJ with comments like "The mighty Khan" and "It's a bit early in the morning for all this chill-out stuff"; the track was presented as a sort of druggy, jazzy thing which older listeners wouldn't 'get'. (2) I have (shame!!) a CD from the dreaded Peter Gabriel's 'realworld' collection, bought in HMV world music section, sat alongside eg drummers from Mali and so on. (3) I have a disco'ed up cassette bought in Paris in the club/dance section of FNAC, sat alongside eg MC Solaar (4) Finally, a 'straight' cassette of devotional music bought in a Southall music shop, sat alongside other Muslim devotionals / Hindu bhajans I think the various outlets and presentations of cds/cassettes suggests that the Khan is/was a more complex phenomenon than the Gabriel worldmusic reading of him suggests. Any thoughts? Caroline Osella Durham, UK. --- from list seminar-12-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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