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| Music of India: Topics | |||||||||
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| Timeline and Samples | |||||||||
| Genres | Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) - Folk - Rock - Pop - Hip hop | ||||||||
| Awards | Bollywood Music Awards - Punjabi Music Awards | ||||||||
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| Festivals | Sangeet Natak Akademi – Thyagaraja Aradhana – Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana | ||||||||
| Media | Sruti, The Music Magazine | ||||||||
| National anthem | "Jana Gana Mana", also national song "Vande Mataram" | ||||||||
| Music of the states | |||||||||
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Andhra Pradesh – Arunachal Pradesh – Assam – Bihar – Chhattisgarh – Goa – Gujarat – Haryana – Himachal Pradesh – Jammu – Jharkhand – Karnataka – Kashmir – Kerala – Madhya Pradesh – Maharashtra – Manipur – Meghalaya – Mizoram – Nagaland – Orissa – Punjab – Rajasthan – Sikkim – Tamil Nadu – Tripura – Uttar Pradesh – Uttaranchal – West Bengal | |||||||||
Much of Indian Pop music comes from the Indian Film Industry, and until the 1990s, few singers like Usha Utthup, Sharon Prabhakar, and Peenaz Masani outside it were popular. Since then, pop singers in the latter group have included Baba Sehgal, Alisha Chinai, Shantanu Mukherjee aka Shaan, Sagarika, Colonial Cousins (Hariharan, Leslie Lewis), Lucky Ali, and Sonu Nigam.
Besides those listed above, popular Indi-Pop singers include Daler Mehndi, Rageshwari, Devika Chawla, Bombay Vikings, Asha Bhosle, Sunidhi Chauhan, Bombay Rockers, Anu Malik, Jazzy B, Malkit Singh, Hans Raj Hans, Raghav, Jay Sean, Juggy D, Rishi Rich, Sheila Chandra, Bally Sagoo, Punjabi MC, Bhangra Knights, Mehnaz, and Sanober.
Recently, Indian pop has taken an interesting turn with the "remixing" of songs from past Indian movie songs, new beats being added to them.
Indian-Pop has has made its way in American pop music with singers like Rishi Rich (working with Britney Spears), Jay-Z (working with Panjabi MC), Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and Truth Hurts. (A suit for copyright infringement of a Lata Mangeshkar song has been filed against Truth Hurts\' song, "Addictive"). Indian-Pop entered American movies with the movie, Moulin Rouge!. Its main number, "Diamonds are a Girl\'s Best Friend (Hindi)", featured Alka Yagnik\'s song "Chamma Chamma" from the Indian movie, "China-Gate".
Popular rock musicians of Indian descent in the US include Kim Thayil of Soundgarden and Tony Kanal of No Doubt. Grammy-winning jazz singer, Norah Jones, is the daughter of sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar of international fame, (US-born Sue Jones being her mother).
Indi-Pop has has made its way in the UK pop through songs and remixes by the likes of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Erasure, Bananarama, and Samantha Fox. Pop singers of Indian descent in the UK include Talvin Singh and Freddie Mercury of British band Queen, (who was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and started his first band in an Indian boarding school in Panchgani). Indo-British band, Cornershop, also fuses Indian and Western music.
In Canada, Indo-Canadian musicians include Dave \'Brownsound\' Baksh (a former Sum 41 guitarist now forming his own band, Brown Brigade); percussionist Safwan Javed (of the pop-rock trio, Wide Mouth Mason); bassist, vocalist, and producer Chin Injeti (formerly of the trio, Bass is Base); Ian D\'Sa (of Billy Talent); and Ashwin Sood (drummer ( husband of Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan)).
In the Scandinavian pop music scene, musicians of Indian descent include Yusaf Parvez of the Norwegian black metal bands, Dimmu Borgir/DHG/Ved Buens Ende/Code.
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| By style | Arabesque pop - Baroque pop - Britpop - Bubblegum pop - Country pop - Futurepop - Glam rock - Pop rock - Pop punk - Pop rap - Power pop - Synthpop & Electropop - Indie pop - Teen pop - Traditional pop - Glam metal - Glam punk - Sunshine pop - Modern Laika - Pop folk - Balkan Pop |
| By region | American pop · Arabic Pop · C-pop (Cantopop, Mandopop) · Europop (Austropop, Nederpop, Turkish pop) · HK English pop · Indian pop (Bhangra & Filmi) · J-pop (Picopop, Shibuya-kei) · K-pop · Persian Pop · SFR Yugoslavia pop · Taiwanese pop |
| Other topics | Boy band · Girl group · Pop icon · Popular music · Pop culture |
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