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Re: Is there Indian rock? Or is it all like "indian music" like you'd think? by Zseni 09/08/2004, 10:00pm PDT
Rock. Well there's an interesting question. I'm going to go ahead and say no, there is no "rock", because I think they just go ahead and import rock from foreigners and concentrate on their variations on pop. There is an awful lot of techno-esque dance beat stuff under "bhangra" and probably some rock-tinged number in the Bollywood section but other than that, the rock releases on Desitorrents would be under "Misc MP3's" and with no "this is rock" qualifier state.

Many trenchant critics of 80's music argue about the pop-rock balance in popular music and contend that rock is on the rise when the economy starts to drop off, but rock requires 1. a knowledge that one is poor and 2. one didn't used to be, or one doesn't plan to be. I'm not saying any of that is true, but I am saying it would be tough to fulfill those criteria in India, the wealthiest nation on Earth.
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Desitorrents! by Zseni 09/08/2004, 6:09pm PDT NEW
    Is there Indian rock? Or is it all like "indian music" like you'd think? NT by Worm 09/08/2004, 7:11pm PDT NEW
        Re: Is there Indian rock? Or is it all like "indian music" like you'd think? by Zseni 09/08/2004, 10:00pm PDT NEW
            Update: "Pakistani Rock" torrents in Pop mp3 section! NT by Zseni 09/09/2004, 1:40am PDT NEW
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