imagine... Season 21 Episode 6 - The Lost Music of Rajasthan

Airdate: 2011-Dec-06

Episode summary:

The arts series takes a road trip round the desert state of Rajasthan, meeting musicians whose existence is under threat from the new India. They meet Bhopa bards who recite four-night-long epics in front ofhuge hand-painted scrolls, saffron-clad, chillum-smoking sisters, cross-dressers and Gypsy dancers who literally bend over backwards to pick up rupees.

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