Raga rock is rock or pop music with a pronounced Indian influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use of Indian musical instruments, such...
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Raga Rock is an album credited to "the Folkswingers featuring Harihar Rao", who was a Los Angeles-based Indian classical musician and ethnomusicologist...
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like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, Southern rock, raga rock, and jazz rock, which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock, influenced...
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A raga (IAST: rāga, IPA: [ɾäːɡ]; also raaga or ragam or raag; lit. 'colouring' or 'tingeing' or 'dyeing') is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian...
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psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called "raga rock". In the...
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known filmi songs (including styles such as funk rock, pop rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock, and soft rock) from Bollywood films include Mohammed Rafi's...
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Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll, Rock n' Roll or proto-rock) is a genre of popular music that evolved...
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List of music genres and styles (section Rock)
Progressive rock (radio format) Proto-prog Space rock Symphonic Rock Zeuhl Psychedelic rock Acid rock Freak scene Neo-psychedelia Raga rock Pub rock (Australia)...
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Music of India (section Raga rock)
band, has been credited with pioneering metal music in the region. Raga rock is rock or pop music with a heavy Indian influence, either in its construction...
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Look up Raga, raga, or ragas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A raga is a melodic framework in Indian classical music. Raga or raaga may also refer...
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The Byrds (category American country rock groups)
1960s progressed, the band was influential in originating psychedelic rock and raga rock, with their song "Eight Miles High" and the albums Fifth Dimension...
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Pub rock (Australia) Pub rock (United Kingdom) Punk blues Punk jazz Punk rap Punk rock Punk pathetique Queercore Raga rock Rapcore Rap metal Rap rock Reggae...
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Eight Miles High (category Raga rock songs)
styles of psychedelia and raga rock. Accordingly, critics often cite "Eight Miles High" as being the first bona fide psychedelic rock song, as well as a classic...
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Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (category Raga rock songs)
1965. "Norwegian Wood" was influential in the development of raga rock and psychedelic rock during the mid-1960s. The song also helped elevate Ravi Shankar...
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Raga Rockers is a Norwegian rock band. The band was formed in 1982 in Oslo by vocalist Michael Krohn, bassist Livio Aiello, guitarist Bruno Hovden and...
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rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It typically combines elements of folk and rock...
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Paint It Black (category Raga rock songs)
the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is a raga rock song with Indian...
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Bus Stop (song) (category Raga rock songs)
Stop" as a single in June 1966, the Hollies joined the trend known as raga rock, a subgenre first popularised by the Beatles, the Byrds and the Kinks...
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became a popular feature in raga rock and psychedelic music. The song is often identified as the first example of raga rock, a subgenre that was officially...
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Heart Full of Soul (category Raga rock songs)
Indian-influenced guitar stylings to rock music, and as one of the earliest examples of what became known as raga rock. Beck's use of a fuzz box has also...
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Ananda Shankar (album) (category Raga rock albums)
sitar-based releases by artists hoping to capitalise on the mid-1960s raga rock trend. Initially conceived as a collaboration with guitarist Jimi Hendrix...
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Tomorrow Never Knows (category Raga rock songs)
pop song." Musicologist William Echard describes it as an example of a raga rock song "rubb[ing] shoulders with the classical avant-garde". After completing...
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Street Fighting Man (category Raga rock songs)
contributed by Brian Jones, which has led to it being characterized as a raga rock song. It also features controversial and ambiguous lyrics about armed...
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See My Friends (category Raga rock songs)
in the style known as raga rock. Music historian Jonathan Bellman sees it as the first Western rock song to integrate Indian raga sounds, citing its release...
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The End (The Doors song) (category Raga rock songs)
Music in Los Angeles, to create a sitar or veena sound; this enhances the raga rock mood. In his book, The Dawn of Indian Music, author Peter Lavezzoli writes...
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led to Indian music being used by other musicians and popularised the raga rock trend. As the sitar and Indian music grew in popularity, groups such as...
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Fifth Dimension (album) (category Raga rock albums)
were instrumental in developing the musical styles of psychedelic rock and raga rock. However, the band ran into trouble with their record company, Columbia...
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Love You To (category Raga rock songs)
Unterberger describes the song as the Beatles' "first all-out excursion" in raga rock, a genre that author Nicholas Schaffner says was "launched" by Harrison's...
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Sunshine Superman (album) (category Raga rock albums)
Donovan's music, representing some of the first psychedelia released. A full rock band backs up Donovan on many of the songs, and the instrumentation had been...
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Within You Without You (category Raga rock songs)
exercises known as sargam, which use the same scales as those found in Indian ragas. "Within You Without You" is the first of Harrison's many songs to include...
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