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Obituaries
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Dr. Vishwanathan N Bringi
(B.Tech. '71, Elec. Engg., H5)
Viswanathan N. Bringi, a pioneering researcher in radar meteorology, passed away on December 18, 2024, in Fort Collins at the age of 75.
Born July 17, 1949, in Bombay Bringi earned his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian
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Hindi film music
Songs featuring in Hindi films
For the music genre, see Filmi.
Hindi film songs, more formally known as Hindi Geet or Filmi songs and informally known as Bollywood music, are songs featured in Hindi films. Derived from the song-and-dance routines common in Indian films, Bollywood songs, along with dance, are a characteristic motif of Hindi cinema which gives it enduring popular appeal, cultural value and context.[1] Hindi film songs form a predominant component of Indian pop music, and derive their inspiration from both classical and modern sources.[1] Hindi film songs are now firmly embedded in North India's popular culture and routinely encountered in North India in marketplaces, shops, during bus and train journeys and numerous other situations.[2] Though Hindi films routinely contain many songs and some dance routines, they are not musicals in the Western theatrical sense; the music-song-dance aspect is an integral fe
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Ranjit Barot: From Floating Point to Meeting Point
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The phrase World Music should suggest a wide-ranging music struktur that encompasses the music of cultures from around the planet. But it really depends on what part of the world you’re talkin’ about. In my opinion, the phrase is really a generic term used to easily label any music made outside of the U.S.A. or europe that isn’t in 4/4 time or sung in English.
Let’s be honest: the majority of music listeners in the West have a bekymmer counting beyond 4. This is ganska the opposite with the music of India, where odd time signatures are played as naturally as breathing. But odd time feels very…well…odd in the West. So a rik, rhythmically-based musical language becomes pigeonholed and stereotyped merely on the almost fearful assumption that it’s too hard and cannot be easily assimilated into western popular music. Some one-off East meets West projects have had some success serving as