Ken Hunt

Ken Hunt (born 11 April 1951) is an English music critic, journalist, broadcaster and translator who specialises in world music, folk and improvised musics. He has written for Mojo, Q, The History of Rock and AllMusic, has 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.

An authority on Indian classical music, Hunt has helped compile albums by Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. He 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.

Career Hunt was born in Surrey in the south of England in April 1951. During that time he interviewed and profiled Paul Brady, Anne Briggs, Martin Carthy, Jerry Garcia, Alan Garner, Mickey Hart, Dagmar Krause, David Lindley, Christy Moore, Ralph Steadman In the 1980s, he also contributed reviews to the magazines Folk Roots and Folk International. He also wrote extensively for Rough Guides' book World Music, first published in 2000. For the third edition of this title, in 2009, Hunt supplied seven chapters on India and one each on Bangladesh and Germany. Since 2000, Hunt has been a writer and consultant for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, having contributed to both its Millennium edition and the project's ongoing supplements. who is also the son of Czechoslovakia's foremost jazz critic and musicologist, Lubomír Dorůžka.

Hunt was one of the contributors to the 2012 book The Album: A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations, edited by James E. Perone. As of 2015, he continued to write for international music and other publications such as fRoots, Folker, Jazzwise, Penguin Eggs, the UK-based Indian arts magazine Pulse, Sing Out!, R2 and Times Literary Supplement, in addition to several UK newspapers.