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Title: Ravi Shankar - Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1967, Classical, Hindustani Classical, Varanasi, India 5/26
Matrix #: WPS-21442
Condition: VG++ (VZ) | Members: Ravi S (20' - 12')
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Shankar left a successful dance-troupe life as a teenager and entered years of strict classical training under Allauddin Khan, trading glamour for discipline.
2. Scene Ecology: Monterey placed Indian classical music directly inside the 60s rock counterculture, where young Western audiences were suddenly looking beyond guitar bands.
3. Media Narrative: Shankar became linked to the Beatles and hippie culture, but he repeatedly pushed back against druggy exoticism and demanded respect for the music itself.