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Article: Rajasthan's dying folk music finds a voice (Feature with Images)
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- The Hindustan Times
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- October 5, 2009
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Jodhpur, Oct. 5 -- Traditional folk music from the remote villages of Rajasthan is finding high-profile voices to carry it mainstream.
A five-day Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF), which began Oct 1 at the sprawling Mehrangarh Fort, is promoting "unheard of music from the desert villages that is dying a slow death due to lack of patronage and popularity".
On Saturday, the country's leading exponent of classical Rajasthani sarangi and vocal music, Ustad Sultan Khan, jumped the "class divide between classical and folk music" to throw his lot with marginalised ethnic folk musicians of Marwar in a rare "folk-meets classical" concert Maru Tarang at the RIFF.
"I want to highlight folk ...