Music in Contemporary Indian Film

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Anurag Kashyap
audiovisual storytelling
Background Score
Bollywood
Bollywood film
Bollywood Films
Bollywood music
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Contemporary Bollywood Film
Contemporary Indian Film
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diaspora cultural studies
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ethnomusicology research
film music
film musical
Film Song
film studies
folk and classical fusion
Hindi Cinema
Hindi Film Music
Hindi Film Songs
Indian cinema
Indian Film
Indian Film Songs
Indian music
Laxmikant Pyarelal
Maine Pyar Kiya
music and film
music and screen media
music and screen media series
Music Directors
music in Bollywood
music in film
musical film
Playback
Playback Singer
Playback Singing
post-liberalization Indian film music
regional soundscapes analysis
Song Sequence
South Asian cinema
South Asian film music
South Asian music
South Asian popular music
Tamil Cinema
Tamil Film Song
Tamil Films
Vice Versa
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138929357
  • Weight: 570g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film. Music is at the center of Indian cinema, and India’s film music industry has a far-reaching impact on popular, folk, and classical music across the subcontinent and the South Asian diaspora. In twelve essays written by an international array of scholars, this book explores the social, cultural, and musical aspects of the industry, including both the traditional center of "Bollywood" and regional film-making. Concentrating on films and songs created in contemporary, post-liberalization India, this book will appeal to classes in film studies, media studies, and world music, as well as all fans of Indian films.

Jayson Beaster-Jones is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (2015) and Music Commodities, Markets, and Values: Music as Merchandise (2016). Natalie Sarrazin is Associate Professor of Music at the College at Brockport. She is the author of Indian Music for the Classroom (2009), as well as numerous publications on Indian film music.