"My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India's best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of the era, even performing at Woodstock in 1969. Here, Shankar describes in his own words his transformation from a young traveling dancer to a Grammy Award-winning, internationally recognized musician. At once a compelling memoir, a history of ...
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"My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India's best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of the era, even performing at Woodstock in 1969. Here, Shankar describes in his own words his transformation from a young traveling dancer to a Grammy Award-winning, internationally recognized musician. At once a compelling memoir, a history of Indian classical music, and a manual on how to play the sitar, the book is as much about living a musical life as it is about the art of music. Originally published in 1968, this edition features a new foreword by Philip Glass, stunning, never-before-published photographs, and a new final chapter detailing Shankar's hope for the preservation of Indian classical music.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Hard bound with dust jacket. 1992 Indian Reprint. 15th printing of the scarce Indian cloth edition of this autobiography by sitarist, Ravi Shankar, with an introduction by Yehudi Menuhin. Included is a compete manual on how to play the sitar. Some wear to edges and corners of dust jacket, otherwise very good.
Add this copy of My Music, My Life to cart. $25.53, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, India.
Add this copy of My Music, My Life to cart. $25.53, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, India.