Jayson Beaster-Jones

Bollywood Sounds

The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song

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Produktbeschreibung

Bollywood Sounds surveys seventy years of Hindi film song as a cosmopolitan and overwhelmingly popular music of India. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones analyzes more than twenty landmark songs and provides insights into song production practices and influential music makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9780199862542
• ISBN-10: 0199862540
• Artikelnr.: 47865705

Autorenporträt

Jayson Beaster-Jones is Assistant Professor of Music and Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. He has conducted several years of ethnographic research on music, commodities, and value in the North Indian music industry. He has published his research in the journals Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, and South Asian Popular Culture and has contributed chapters to several edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1: Bollywood Sounds
* Chapter 2: Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the
Emergence of Filmi Style
* Chapter 3: 'But My Heart is Still Indian:' Film Songs of the Early
Post-Colonial Era
* Chapter 4: The Language and Lyrics of Hindi Films
* Chapter 5: Songs in the Key of the Angry Young Man and the Cabaret
Woman
* Chapter 6: Liberalization, Family Films, and the Rise of Bollywood
* Chapter 7: Film Songs in the Era of the Multiplex and YouTube
* Chapter 8: Concluding Thoughts on the Art and Commerce of Hindi Film
Songs
* Appendix A: Timelines of Key Figures
* Appendix B: Recommended Listening and Viewing
* Glossary
* Bibliography
* Filmography
* Discography