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Terry Teachout (WNYC/Margo McLean)Salaam, New York!
From the musical "Bombay Dreams" to the popular Bhangra parties at the club SOB’s, it seems that New York’s music world is suddenly transfixed with all things South Asian. One of the highlights of this year’s Lincoln Center Festival is "TransMetropolitan," a program of Fourth World compositions mixing world music, video, and literature, organized by the multimedia artist DJ Spooky. On the bill are performances by some of the leading creative artists in the field including jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and Pakistani playwright Ibrahim Quraishi. They’ll join us today along with DJ Spooky to talk about the rendezvous of Western music and Eastern art.
Also on the show, Terry Teachout, drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, music critic of Commentary, and serial blogger, joins us on the heels of the release of The Terry Teachout Reader. He weighs in on the notion of "middlebrow culture" in the U.S.
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