The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gehlawat, Ajay; Dudrah, Rajinder

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the evolution of song and dance in the popular Hindi film, this book examines how these quintessential elements have been and continue to be theorized. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000448955
• Artikelnr.: 59482505

Autorenporträt

Ajay Gehlawat is the author of several studies of popular Hindi cinema, including Twenty-First Century Bollywood (Routledge, 2015). He is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Film at Sonoma State University, CA, USA. Rajinder Dudrah has authored numerous studies of Indian cinema and is the editor of the South Asian Popular Culture journal. He is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries at Birmingham City University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema Part I: Early
Developments in Song and Dance 1. Synchronicity and continuity of sound and
image in early Indian cinema 2. Two dances and a conference 3. Dance
Musicalization: Proposing a choreomusicological approach to Hindi film
song-and-dance sequences Part II: Contemporary Transformations 4. Romance,
piety, and fun: The transformation of qawwali and Islamicate culture in
Hindi cinema 5. A.R. Rahman and the aesthetic transformation of Indian film
scores 6. Bollywood's variation on the firanginess theme: Song-and-dance
sequences as heterotopic offbeats 7. Kehte Hain Humko Pyar Se Indiawaale:
Shaping a contemporary diasporic Indianness in and through the Bollywood
Song 8. The picture is not yet over!: The end credits song sequence in
Bollywood