Ken Hunt (music journalist)

Ken Hunt (born 11 April 1951) is a bilingual English music critic, journalist, broadcaster and translator who specialises in world music, folk and improvised musics. He has written for Mojo, Q, History of Rock and AllMusic, contributed to titles in Rough Guides' Music Reference Series, and is a musical consultant on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is also an obituarist for The Guardian, The Independent, The Scotsman, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Times.

Of him, the British folk fiddler Dave Swarbrick wrote in a letter to R2 magazine in 2011, "I think Ken Hunt has a style, a recognisable style. Very clever and informative, readable and honest."

An authority on Indian classical music, Hunt has helped compile albums by Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, and has written liner notes for albums by many other artists, including Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Yehudi Menuhin, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham and the Kronos Quartet. Ravi Shankar once described Hunt as "unique" in his understanding of the music of the Indian subcontinent.

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