User:Rashma n kalsie

Indian Rock Bands: a tasteless decoction Past decade has seen the rise of home-grown rock bands in India. Has Indian music lost direction or found its own voice? Apart from the Bombay film industry that composes music for cinema, now you have western popular music aped in Hindi-English for the Indian youth. The youth which is at crossroads about its own identity, seeks its role models in these middle-aged men, who are clinging on to their teenage love of western culture and music. They are creating music, that is essentially easy to hum, suitable for dance and too loud to appeal to a conneiseur of music. Much noise about nothing, is how their genre can be described. There are hardly any trained musicians or even singers among them, leave alone people with refined taste and finer sensibilties. What started as a college-fest carnival has now grown bigger and the veterans who had stuck on to their guns are making big moolah. Average popular band charges 1.5-3.0 lacs per concert, which is obviously not covered by the gate money. Money spinning doesn't end here, for these self-proclaimed musicians become hosts and judges of talent-hunt shows on the television. There we have on the one hand, youngsters who will never learn to discern good music from bad, and a whole lot of talent wasted in singing mediocre songs. Had they been trained in classical music, or even folk like the Bauls, it would have created talented Indian musicians and their audience. In this backward evolution of music, Indian classical music has become a casulaty.