(By Udayan Namboodiri for Khabar South Asia in New Delhi, June 19, 2012): Hindustani classical music blossomed in the court of the Mughal emperors, who held sway over the subcontinent for four centuries until the arrival of the British. Each region and even small towns of northern India evolved its distinctive tradition of the art form. Mehdi Hassan, who was born in Raj...(展开全部) (By Udayan Namboodiri for Khabar South Asia in New Delhi, June 19, 2012): Hindustani classical music blossomed in the court of the Mughal emperors, who held sway over the subcontinent for four centuries until the arrival of the British. Each region and even small towns of northern India evolved its distinctive tradition of the art form. Mehdi Hassan, who was born in Rajasthan in 1927, was the last in the "Dhrupad" style of ghazal rendition. A ghazal song is typically about love or expressions of pain over separation or romantic memories. That's the chief reason why ghazal-based popular music quickly became a staple of Indian movies. "Some of the greatest smash hits in Bollywood are ghazal-based," Anupam Kher, a film star and fan of Mehdi Hassan, told Khabar. Partition of the subcontinent along religious lines in 1947 uprooted not just millions of ordinary Hindus and Muslims, but also the musicians who lived off Hindustani music. "Patronage came from princes, the land-owning gentry and minor lords. But after democracy came, many of the gharanas [distinct schools of music] were forced into extinction," R.K.Pandit, dean of music history at Delhi University, said. Mehdi Hasan moved with other ghazal noted musicians to Karachi. There, in the early days of the new nation of Pakistan, he was forced to eke out a living as an automobile mechanic. Later, however, he revived his circumstances thanks to the Pakistani movie industry. It wasn't long before his melodious voice hit India.
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