How does Ali Bux's role connect Bismillah Khan's talent with social heritage?
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Correct answer: Through teacher tradition musical knowledge reaches the next generation
Ali Bux connects Bismillah Khan’s individual talent with the wider social heritage of music because he acted as a guru within a continuing tradition. A musical skill is not usually developed in isolation. It is learned through listening, imitation, disciplined practice and personal instruction. Ali Bux passed on knowledge of the shehnai, its techniques and its cultural traditions to the younger Bismillah Khan. In this way, family, community and artistic practice helped preserve and extend inherited knowledge.
Option A is correct because the guru tradition carries music from one generation to the next. The teacher does more than demonstrate notes: he transmits values, habits, style and respect for the art. The other choices are unreasonable. A guru does not end music, merely distribute prizes, or cut the learner off from society. Ali Bux’s role shows that individual greatness can grow from a shared cultural background and can later enrich that same tradition.
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Through teacher tradition musical knowledge reaches the next generation
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Ali Bux connects Bismillah Khan’s individual talent with the wider social heritage of music because he acted as a guru within a continuing tradition. A musical skill is not usually developed in isolation. It is learned through listening, imitation, disciplined practice and personal instruction. Ali Bux passed on knowledge of the shehnai, its techniques and its cultural traditions to the younger Bismillah Khan. In this way, family, community and artistic practice helped preserve and extend inherited knowledge.
Option A is correct because the guru tradition carries music from one generation to the next. The teacher does more than demonstrate notes: he transmits values, habits, style and respect for the art. The other choices are unreasonable. A guru does not end music, merely distribute prizes, or cut the learner off from society. Ali Bux’s role shows that individual greatness can grow from a shared cultural background and can later enrich that same tradition.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 9 English question. Chapter: The Sound of Music. Topic: Overcoming physical disabilities (Evelyn Glennie) and the life of Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan.
