Behind the curtain
Subtitle: making music in Mumbai's film studios
By: Gregory D. Booth.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780195327632; 9780195327649
Subjects: Motion picture music -- Production and direction -- India -- Bombay -- History; Motion picture music -- India -- Bombay -- History and criticism; Motion picture industry -- India -- Bombay -- History
Description: This text examines the musicians who were composers, arrangers assistants and studio performers in the Bollywood studios from the 1930s until the present. It offers a musical, technological industrial, and social history of India's hegemonic popular music industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History, technology, and a determinist milieu for Hindi film song. Popular music as film music ; Musicians and technology in the Mumbai film music industry ; Changing structures in the Mumbai film industry; title: The life of music in the Mumbai film industry. Origins, training, and "joining the line" ; Roles, relations, and the creative process ; Rehearsals, recordings, and economics; title: Music, instruments, and meaning from musicians' perspectives. Orchestras and orchestral procedures, instrumental change, arranging, and programming ; Issues of style, genre, and value in Mumbai film music; title: Conclusion : oral history, change, and accounts of human agency.