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Bamako - Grieving friends and family members buried African musical legend Ali Farka Toure in the two-time Grammy Award winner's hometown on the edge of the Sahara Desert, mourners said. The government transported the body of Toure, who died on Tuesday, by truck to his hometown of Niafunke after heavy sandstorms across West Africa grounded the plane meant to bring him to the town in the region of Timbuktu, just south of the Sahara Desert. His loved ones buried him there on Thursday, said one funeral participant, Amadou Cisse, reached by telephone from Bamako, the faraway capital of Mali. |
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Bombay - The July 7 London transit system bombings, the fictional flight of a failed bomber and a look at what could turn a young Muslim into a killer are parts of a new Bollywood movie being written by a veteran Indian filmmaker. Mahesh Bhatt said his film, tentatively titled Suicide Bomber, will focus on an imagined bomber who fails to detonate his explosives, flees to his mother's homeland, India, and begins to question his mission. Like most Bollywood movies, it will include songs and dancing. "It's not a replay of what happened in London," Bhatt said on Monday. "That event was a trigger to get into the mind of a (fictional) suicide bomber born in Britain to a Pakistani father and Indian mother." |
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London - Internet downloading and MP3 players are creating a generation of people who do not seriously appreciate songs or musical performances, British researchers said on Tuesday. "The accessibility of music has meant that it is taken for granted and does not require a deep emotional commitment once associated with music appreciation," said music psychologist Adrian North. North led a team from the University of Leicester, central England, that monitored 346 people over two weeks to evaluate how they related to music. They concluded that because of greater accessibility through mass media, music was nowadays seen more as a commodity that is produced, distributed and consumed like any other. It could also account for the popularity of television talent competitions, particularly in Britain, which allow viewers from the "iPod generation" a rare chance to engage and appreciate music and live performances, they suggested. |
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