page_title: Sitar in popular music
hierarchical_section_title: Sitar in popular music
caption_attribution_description: English: Master of Sitar, Ravi Shankar. Deutsch: Ravi Shankar, Meister der Sitar.
context_page_description: While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.
context_section_description: While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.
caption: Ravi Shankar, a master of the instrument, was the first to make inroads into Western culture with the sitar.
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