From the Slums of Calcutta to the Concert Halls of London: The Life and Music of Indian Composer John Mayer (1929-2004) by John O. Robison. Published by the MRI Press 2019 348 pages, ISBN 978-1-933459-09-7 $50.00 per copy plus shipping  Table of Contents USA customers, please order here on the MRI website; International Customers, please order via Amazon.com.
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From the slums of Calcutta to the concert halls of London — John Mayer’s story should be an inspiration to all of us who are sympathetic with issues such as social restrictions, poverty, and prejudice. Coming from an impoverished family that lacked the financial means to support a musical career, Mayer also had to struggle against a social system that afforded musical opportunities only to people from upper-class families, deal with the general prejudice against Indians in mid-twentieth century Britain, and prove to those with Eurocentric orientations that Indians could not only improvise, but compose music as well. As a member of such a poor family, Mayer should have had absolutely no chance to have a career as a musician, since this was a privilege afforded to the children of wealthy families. His ability to forge a musical career for himself is truly an amazing story that can best be described as a combination of incredible determination, luck, and the goodwill of many people who offered to help him along this difficult path that eventually took him from Calcutta to London.

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