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Rolf Killius

Rolf Killius is a writer, museum consultant, exhibition curator, ethnomusicologist, oral historian, radio journalist and multimedia producer.

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Mappila Rhythms, Monsoon Connections
Arts & Culture
It was mainly the pepper in Kerala, at the southwest tip of India, that lured early traders to ride seasonal monsoon winds across the Arabian Sea. With the mariners came music that mixed with Keralan sounds to become the complex, percussion-driven traditions of today’s Mappila culture.