Jayson Beaster-Jones

Bollywood Sounds (eBook, ePUB)

The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199993482
• Artikelnr.: 41832700

Autorenporträt

Jayson Beaster-Jones is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Merced.

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