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The sitar is the most widely known of all North Indian and was made popular in the 1960s in the US by Ravi Shankar
The WOMAD organisation which celebrate world music through a series of live festivals across the globe was founded by Peter Gabriel
You can hear world music on Radio 3's World Routes, Late Junction and Andy Kershaw programmes
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