Question
Answer the following about the influence of Hindustani classical music on film, for 10 points each.
[10m] Lata Mangeshkar, who took lessons in Hindustani classical music from an early age, recorded over a thousand songs as this kind of singer. They provide vocals to the songs in many Indian movies while the actors lip-sync.
ANSWER: playback singers [or playback singing; or ghost singers]
[10e] This man composed the scores for Anuradha and Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy. Alongside Ali Akbar Khan, this sitarist popularized Hindustani music in the West.
ANSWER: Ravi Shankar [or Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury or Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury; prompt on Chowdhury]
[10h] Silsila and Chandni composer Hariprasad Chaurasia is a master of this instrument from northern India, which is stereotypically played over shots of hills and mountains. This flute is made from bamboo.
ANSWER: bansuri [or bashi; or banshi]
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Summary
2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 22 | 15.45 | 91% | 41% | 23% |
Data
Florida B | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ohio State A | McGill A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Rutgers A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Claremont A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Chicago A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Minnesota A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Imperial A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Brown A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Yale A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Yale B | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Florida A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Cornell A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State A | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Rutgers B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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Indiana A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
MIT A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UC Berkeley A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Virginia A | Iowa State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |