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(Mama Buzz, a now-shuttered all-ages venue, was where Oakland’s now-famous First Fridays coalesced in the late 2000s, when the tourist-friendly street fair was still a tiny, DIY block party.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cam, raised on Patsy Cline, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles and Joni Mitchell, had felt the Bay Area’s economic pressure to get a full-time job rather than work on music. Though she knew audiences had a hunger for what she calls “acoustic guitar-driven stories,” the Bay Area didn’t—and still doesn’t—have much of a country music scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cam’s anxieties were quickly dispelled. “If I had a show, people packed it out,” she says in a recent phone interview. “So whatever people say of support for different genres, the community \u003cem>loves\u003c/em> music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of Cam as she looks out a window and into the distance. \" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/CAM_press-photo.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cam. \u003ccite>(Sony Music Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cam’s path to becoming one of country music’s most exciting voices was a winding one. Although she had always dreamed of a life in music, after graduating from UC Davis, she worked in psychology research at UC Berkeley and Stanford, waitressing on the side and playing shows on the weekends. While working at Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://culture-emotion-lab.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Culture and Emotion Lab\u003c/a>, where Cam co-authored two papers, she mulled over whether to pursue music as a career. During a moment of doubt, her boss, Professor Jeanne Tsai, posed a question that put everything in perspective: “Picture yourself 80 years old,” she said. “Looking back on your life, what would you regret missing out on: psychology research or music?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just clicked, it was clear,” says Cam. “I would beat myself up if I didn’t give it a shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cam packed her bags and moved to Portland—to “retire young” from working a day job, she tells me jokingly, and to focus exclusively on music. There, she began to write “Burning House,” the heartbreaking ballad that put her on the map as a solo artist. Evoking the crushing feeling of wanting to save someone who can’t be saved, the sweetly strummed song showcases Cam’s quietly profound lyrical abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a decade of ironic, detached pop, Cam went in the opposite direction, writing earnest lyrics about how much she cares—about love, relationships, her dreams. The approach proved to be refreshing for listeners. In addition to becoming certified double platinum in 2018, “Burning House” peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s country chart and No. 29 on the Hot 100, and earned Cam a Grammy nomination in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/uyGSe76rAJc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">R\u003c/span>ealizing she needed to relocate to take her career to the next level, Cam left Portland for Los Angeles, where her close collaborator Tyler Johnson introduced her to Jeff Bhasker, a songwriter and producer for pop royalty like Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Kanye West. With Bhasker and Johnson’s help, she began crafting what would become her first major album, \u003ca href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/untamed/1055442148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Untamed\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, released in 2015 on Sony Music Entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003cem>Untamed\u003c/em> was still in the works circa 2012, a friend of a friend promised to pass some of Cam’s demos to Faith Hill. (“Word to the wise, for everyone who’s starting out in the industry: they don’t know Faith Hill,” Cam says, chuckling at her naiveté at the time.) The demos ended up in the hands of an artist manager in Nashville who had previously worked with the Dixie Chicks and Tim McGraw, and he bought the rights to one of Cam’s songs for a new artist he was developing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ecstatic that people with industry clout saw her potential as a songwriter, Cam decided to move to Nashville in 2012. But shortly after arriving, she turned down a publishing deal as a behind-the-scenes writer, setting her sights on her own solo career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It always feels so statistically impossible to make it in music, so whenever anything happens you get so overjoyed,” Cam says of the difficult decision to turn down the offer. “I’m glad I was a little older at that point, and I had some savvy, Bay Area ‘I know what things cost in real life.’ I knew I was worth more than this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was right—as the success of \u003cem>Untamed\u003c/em> would later prove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s Cam worked on \u003cem>Untamed\u003c/em>, her profile as a songwriter continued to grow. She co-wrote “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/RcYXDISiJuA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maybe You’re Right\u003c/a>” for Miley Cyrus’ 2013 album \u003cem>Bangerz\u003c/em>, pairing lovelorn lyrics sung in a contemporary country croon with Johnson’s anthemic, kick drum-driven pop beat. Cam was accustomed to solo writing sessions with her acoustic guitar, and had never written lyrics to an already-finished pop instrumental. Not to mention, she had attempted to keep up in the “smoking department” with some of the rap producers Cyrus enlisted for the album, she remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They closed me in the vocal booth and just put the song on loop. It felt like it was hours, but I’m sure it was five minutes,” she says. To Cam’s surprise, Cyrus loved what she came up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the success of \u003cem>Untamed\u003c/em>, Johnson invited Cam into the studio to work with another high-profile client, Sam Smith. The British hitmaker was instantly charmed by the warm, sparse melody Cam strummed on her Gretsch Falcon guitar, as well as her lyrics about how falling in love, no matter the outcome, is “never a waste of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The track they collaborated on ended up becoming “Palace” for Smith’s 2017 \u003cem>The Thrill of It All\u003c/em>, and the album hit No. 1 on Billboard. Smith invited Cam open for them on their 2018 tour (Smith \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8529910/sam-smith-they-them-pronouns-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uses they/them pronouns\u003c/a>), where the two musicians sang “Palace” as a duet in arenas across North America. “To have Sam Smith sing your words back to you is nuts!” Cam says excitedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/4ANgUxbeXUc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cam’s reached crucial milestones of music-industry success, and in keeping with the Bay Area’s tradition of activism, she uses her position to advocate for social change. She’s a member of the Recording Academy’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. And although she’s pleased that conversations about gender are opening up in country music (honoring the genre’s women trailblazers, Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire host this November’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/2019-cma-awards-host-carrie-underwood-dolly-parton-reba-873257/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country Music Awards\u003c/a>), she’s quick to note how country’s gatekeepers have all but erased many of the genre’s black originators. “It was a segregated country, so it’s a segregated genre,” Cam says. [aside postid='arts_13866441']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing on her psychology background, she holds a long view of music as a crucial part of human brain development, identity and cultural groups. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1986, rap was still a fledgling genre largely thought of as a fleeting trend—even though multiple hip-hop singles had reached the Billboard charts and Sugar Hill Records enjoyed seven years of success. Yet the genre’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new, creative energy proved to be the saving grace of one of the biggest rock bands of all time: Aerosmith, who were all but washed by the mid ’80s, with drug issues threatening the future of the band. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Rick Rubin approached Aerosmith’s manager about working with the buzzing rap trio Run-DMC, both sides had reservations. But the groups got into the studio and pushed out a reworked version of the band’s 11-year-old track, “Walk This Way,” in a single day. 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(Beastie Boys had attempted to kick off the rap-rock trend two years earlier: in 1984, Def Jam withdrew their single “Rock Hard” because of an uncleared AC/DC sample.) Two months before \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/07Y0cy-nvAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Licensed to Ill\u003c/em>\u003c/a> came out, LL Cool J’s 1986 Rubin-produced song “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ZyswjkZJugI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rock the Bells\u003c/a>” also made Billboard’s Top 40. Def Jam was on top. [aside postid='arts_13866441']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Walk This Way” was a win-win for Aerosmith and Run-DMC. Run-DMC got the mainstream music industry cosign they needed to transcend the underground. And Aerosmith enjoyed sustained longevity and pop-culture relevance: they released their album \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Permanent Vacation\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 1987 (with three top-20 singles and over five million copies sold) and went on tour almost immediately. Executives and fans alike realized how powerful rap-rock was. Over the next 35 years, the two genres worked together to create career-defining material for multiple artists, and also created space for the genre-bending solo artists that are popular today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1990s, rock artists inspired by hip-hop, like Korn, Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit, were on the rise. Korn’s lead vocalist, Jonathan Davis, was a fan of Ice Cube and the gritty sounds of N.W.A., which was evident in the music he helped create. In 1998, the band collaborated with Ice Cube on “Children of the Korn,” exchanging hardcore verses that spoke to Gen X and Y rebellion, advising parents to “Report to your local church / Report to your local police department / It’s going down.” But Davis always resented the “rap metal” label, calling it “corny” \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://allhiphop.com/features/jonathan-davis-of-korn-is-hip-hop-v91zVz_ZakWXULXJsJaAAw/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in a 2007 interview\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/kdQN-B8aodw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ’90s also birthed the rap girl/pop girl formula that was showcased on Melanie C (of Spice Girls) and Left Eye’s 1999 song, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/2nEzfa43VF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Never Be The Same Again\u003c/a>.” Two years later, a newly-solo Gwen Stefani and Eve worked together on “Blow Ya Mind,” which won a Grammy for a new category: Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” released in 2003, came during the beginning of an important shift in American pop culture: as \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/may/02/popandrock#00s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>’s Sean O’Hagan noted\u003c/a>, by October 2003, none of the top 10 songs on Billboard were by white artists for the first time. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ascendancy of rap and contemporary R&B as the music of choice for young Americans, black and white, was total and irrefutable,” he wrote in 2004\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Before “99 Problems,” rap historically leaned on rock, its older, angsty and rebellious sibling, for validation from the mainstream pop world. But in 2003, when Jay-Z shared his Rick Rubin-produced, cop-dodging anthem, rap was decades strong and was slowly overtaking rock as the more popular art form—\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">though it would take nearly 15 years for it to dominate sales in the streaming era. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unlike “Walk This Way,” the rap-rock collaborations of the early 2000s reflected a spirit of fun and collaboration rather than career-reviving necessity. Rap-rock group Linkin Park, which formed in 1996, released \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collision Course\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with Jay-Z in 2004. The EP’s only single, “Numb/Encore” went on to win a Best Rap/Sung Grammy. But this collaboration wasn’t about resuscitating anyone’s career: both acts were at the top of their game.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/yNPECkESPbU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collaborations like Avril Lavigne and Lil Mama’s 2007 solid “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/EnwLrQ2ys_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girlfriend\u003c/a>” remix continued the formula’s success into the late 2000s, but by the end of that decade, rap-rock had all but lost its cool. As Jayson Greene noted in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/the-unlikely-resurgence-of-rap-rock/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pitchfork\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, listeners associated the genre with projects like Limp Bizkit’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an album that brimmed with toxic masculinity and copious amounts of shock value. 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When record producer Ralph Peer went to Atlanta after the success of Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” to record more black artists, he instead was encouraged to record Carson, a white man, singing “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane,” a song romanticizing slave life. Meanwhile, Stephen Foster wrote songs for minstrel shows with blackface performers that sold a sentimental version of the antebellum South. 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For Ken Burns, it means asking a handful of black artists to comment about it on camera: Charley Pride, Rihannon Giddens, Darius Rucker, Wynton Marsalis. Much of what they say in the film is about the uniting power of music, and not about the dividing nature of systemic racism in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met with Burns and Duncan, I wanted to know, especially after watching the documentary’s first episode: \u003cem>What happened?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country music is an almost entirely white genre now. The number of high-charting black country artists can be counted on one hand, and some of them, most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854359/old-town-road-lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Nas X\u003c/a>, have faced overt resistance from the country music establishment. 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And some of that is necessary, some of it is good, and some of it can be distorting and bad, and even evil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns has first-person experience with those categories, having worked in an Ann Arbor record store when he was younger, filing albums into different genre sections dictated in part by race. But he clearly did not want to make the scourge of racism a greater issue in the film than the salve of music’s back-and-forth conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the history of the United States has not been exemplary with regard to race. So I don’t think we need to be too shocked anytime you find that African-American influence isn’t acknowledged,” said Burns. “Saying that race is an issue in America is not a banner headline. 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Over the course of the subsequent seven episodes, we learn about the many black figures behind the scenes, helping white stars become famous. Gus Cannon for Johnny Cash. Rufus “Tee Tot” Payne for Hank Williams. Lesley Riddle for A.B. Carter. Arnold Shultz for Bill Monroe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is this true cross-pollination, or is it a siphoning? We learn about the banjo player Uncle Dave Macon, descended from Confederate soldiers, becoming a celebrity by taking songs and stage moves from the black tradition. We learn about Jimmie Rodgers picking up field hollers from black crews in the railroad yards where he worked as a water boy, and then performing in blackface for medicine shows before becoming the wealthiest country singer of his time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again: isn’t this theft? Not just theft of cultural production, but—when royalties are involved—actual money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say we \u003cem>stole\u003c/em> it—that’s a pretty strong word. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Over its 16-hour run time, Ken Burns’ documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>\u003c/a> lends dignity and credibility to a genre often denigrated. And just as importantly, it elevates lesser-known figures, delving into a deeper history of country beyond its household names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what will surely have people talking is the way the documentary treats race in country music. Specifically, its genesis as a cross-cultural collaboration across racial lines. Within the first five minutes of the debut episode, the documentary credits both enslaved people and those living in border barrios as sources of country music, and emphasizes that the banjo—a key instrument in the genre—came to the southern United States from Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we discovered that there’s deep roots that include black music that are part of country,” said Dayton Duncan, Burns’ writer and co-producer on the film, when I met with him and Burns in San Francisco. “It’s just there, in plain sight. But the common stereotype of country music is that it is only white music for white people. It’s become so encrusted. And I hope our film will show us that’s just as much of an unfair stereotype as any other unfair stereotype.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, from the start of \u003cem>Country Music\u003c/em>, there’s a power imbalance. We learn that one of the music’s biggest stars, Fiddlin’ John Carson, performed at Ku Klux Klan rallies. 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For Ken Burns, it means asking a handful of black artists to comment about it on camera: Charley Pride, Rihannon Giddens, Darius Rucker, Wynton Marsalis. Much of what they say in the film is about the uniting power of music, and not about the dividing nature of systemic racism in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met with Burns and Duncan, I wanted to know, especially after watching the documentary’s first episode: \u003cem>What happened?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country music is an almost entirely white genre now. The number of high-charting black country artists can be counted on one hand, and some of them, most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854359/old-town-road-lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Nas X\u003c/a>, have faced overt resistance from the country music establishment. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s an epic story; everything from Mahatma Gandhi’s early days in law school to his campaigns in South Africa, to the civil disobedience movement he led against British colonial rule in India that inspired people all over the world, including \u003ca href=\"https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/gandhi-mohandas-k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naatak co-founder, artistic director and playwright Sujit Saraf says, with \u003ca style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"https://www.naatak.com/portfolio/gandhi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gandhi: A Grand Musical\u003c/a>\u003ci>, the \u003c/i>theater company presents an accessible yet nuanced picture for Indians steeped in Gandhi love — and hate — from childhood on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gandhi has total ‘brand permeation’ in India. We grew up with Gandhi as our father. Some of us continue to adore him. Then there is a strain of — it’s hot in India — where you mock everything Gandhi did because he’s extremely easy to mock.” That includes some of the very things that helped establish Gandhi’s moral and political stature in the first place, like the humble loincloth, or dhoti, he wore, the vow of celibacy he held to for much of his adult life, and his campaign to change sanitation practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A man who led 300 million people and had something to say, over a long public career, on every subject on earth necessarily said many silly things. I could come up with a hundred silly things that Gandhi said and none of those put together would paint a picture of the man. 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They are too aware that he is a world figure. He is the father of the nation. So the movie, for instance, is full of slow motion footage of Gandhi putting on glasses, Gandhi slipping his feet into sandals. He utters witticisms and white people’s jaws drop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Indians. I don’t need to see Gandhi through Western eyes. Not only that, I’m able to represent him in his own language.” Three languages, in fact: Ghandi’s native tongue, Gujarati, as well as Hindi and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhLexs13cZU]Saraf says there was a distinct difference in the way Gandhi communicated, depending on who his audience was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he spoke in Hindi, he spoke very mundanely. When he spoke in English, he was aiming it at a western audience, and the point five percent of Indians who could speak English then. His speeches acquired a slightly more poetic air. He wasn’t an orator on the level of MLK. I don’t have Gandhi making beautiful speeches in the musical because it just doesn’t make sense. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Naatak feels freer to take poetic license with original music (composed by Nachiketa Yakkundi and dance (choreography by Soumya Agastya, Shwetha Subraya and Nisha Natraj). “So many of Gandhi’s ideas and campaigns are presented in the play as lovely dance and music,” Saraf says. The musical also includes songs familiar from Gandhi’s life and the Indian independence movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Resistance as Spiritual Practice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gandhi’s deeply rooted spiritual practice was central to his political practice, his philosophy of non-violent resistance to oppression. Political campaigns for him were a means to a larger end. He felt he was an instrument of divine will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He arrived at what he thought were some simple truths,” says Saraf. “Everything he did was an attempt to test those truths and his laboratory kept getting larger and larger. He really was a very personal man living as a public figure, testing out deeply held beliefs and theories — on abstinence, on sanitation, on humility. They took a political form, but the political life was not what he was talking about, and in a strange way, he never made a secret of it. He often talked about how independence from the British meant nothing [to him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did mean something to Gandhi? “A life of dignity, harmony between Hindus and Muslims, and self-sufficiency. To him, these were the important aims and goals of life, and independence from British rule was merely a means of achieving these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/DSC01284.jpg\" alt='Original music and dance feature prominently in \"Gandhi: The Musical\" put on by Silicon Valley-based Naatak.' width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/DSC01284.jpg 1616w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/DSC01284-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/DSC01284-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/DSC01284-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/DSC01284-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/DSC01284-1200x802.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original music and dance feature prominently in “Gandhi: A Grand Musical” put on by Silicon Valley-based Naatak. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Rajat Bhargava)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But if Gandhi succeeded in shaming the British out of India, he was completely unsuccessful in establishing a country free of religious and class divisions, and of politicians who stoke the fires of those divisions to get into and stay in power. Naked materialism is in vogue now, as much in India as any place else on earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would not be pleased if he came back,” muses Saraf. “I think he would go on a fast unto death, and sadly, I don’t know if anybody would care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heady stuff to tackle on stage — and timely, given that October 2nd marks the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Gandhi: A Grand Musical\u003c/strong> runs Sept. 14-Oct. 6 at Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto. 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Naked materialism is in vogue now, as much in India as any place else on earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would not be pleased if he came back,” muses Saraf. “I think he would go on a fast unto death, and sadly, I don’t know if anybody would care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heady stuff to tackle on stage — and timely, given that October 2nd marks the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Gandhi: A Grand Musical\u003c/strong> runs Sept. 14-Oct. 6 at Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto. 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