More than Bollywood
Subtitle: studies in Indian popular music
By: edited by Gregory D. Booth and Bradley Shope
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780199928835; 9780199928859
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Motion picture music; Popular music; History and criticism
Description: This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular musics in India. Fourteen of the world's leading scholars on Indian popular music have contributed chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to Indian rock music, summarized by a reflective afterword by popular music scholar Timothy Taylor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-333), discography (pages 339-341), filmography (pages 335-339), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Popular music in India  -- Gregory D. Booth and Bradley Shope; title: A moment of historical conjuncture in Mumbai : playback singers, music directors, and arrangers and the creation of Hindi song (1948-1952)  -- Gregory D. Booth; title: Global masala : digital identities and aesthetic trajectories in post-liberalized Indian fim music  -- Natalie Sarrazin; title: Kollywood goes global : new sounds and contexts for Tamil film music in the 21st century  -- Joseph Getter; title: On nightingales and moonlight : songcrafting femininity in Malluwood  -- Kaley Mason; title: Film song and its other : stylistic mediation and the Hindi film song genre  -- Jayson Beaster-Jones; title: Play it again, Saraswathi : gramophone, religion, and devotional music in colonial South India  -- Stephen Putnam Hughes; title: Filming the Bhangra music video  -- Anjali Gera Roy; title: Mimesis and authenticity : the case of "Thanda thanda pani" and questions of versioning in North Indian popular music  -- Peter Kvetko; title: Making music regional in a Delhi studio  -- Stefan Fiol; title: Latin American music in moving pictures and jazzy cabarets in Mumbai, 1930s to 1950s  -- Bradley Shope; title: The beat comes to India : the incorporation [of] rock music into the Indian soundscape  -- Gregory D. Booth; title: "Be true to yourself" : violin Ganesh, fusion, and contradictions in contemporary urban India  -- Niko Higgins; title: At home in the studio : the sound of Manganiyar music going popular  -- Shalini Ayyagari; title: The livenesses of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's popular abhangas  -- Anna Schultz; title: Bollywood in the era of filmsong avatars : DJing, remixing, and change in the film music industry of North India  -- Paul Greene -- Afterword.; title: Capitalisms and cosmopolitanisms -- Timothy D. Taylor.