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More Than Bollywood

Studies in Indian Popular Music

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Product Type
Book (softcover)
Editor
Gregory D. Booth, Bradley Shope
Product number
778072
Languages
english
Release Year
2013
Extent
384 Pages

Description

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular musics in India. It brings together fourteen of the world's leading scholars on Indian popular music to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes, summarized by a reflective afterword by popular music scholar Timothy Taylor.

The chapters in this volume address the impact of media and technology on contemporary music, the variety of industrial develo...

Content

  •  List of Contributors
  •  List of Figures
  •  List of Companion Media
  •  Introduction -  Popular Music in India -  Gregory D. Booth and Bradley Shope
  •  Part One: Perspectives on Film Song
  •  1. A Moment of Historical Conjuncture in Mumbai: Playback Singers, Music Directors, and Arrangers and the Creation of Hindi Song (1948-1952) -  Gregory D. Booth
  •  2. Global Masala: Digital Identities and Aesthetic Trajectories in Post-Liberalized Indi...