More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music

by Gregory D. Booth, Bradley Shope

Overview

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India. It brings together fourteen of the field's leading scholars to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes. The chapters in this volume address the impact of media and technology on contemporary music, the variety of industrial developments and contexts for Indian popular music, and historical trends in popular music development both before and after the Indian Independence in 1947. The contributors also address the subcontinent's historical relationships with colonialism, the transnational market economies, local governmental factors, international conventions, and a host of other circumstances that shed light on the development of popular music throughout India. To illustrate each chapter author's points, and to make available music otherwise not always easily accessible, the book features a companion website of audio and video tracks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199928859
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/04/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,035,106
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

GREGORY D. BOOTH is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Auckland and author of Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios (OUP 2008) and Brass Baja: Stories from the World of Indian Wedding Bands (OUP 2005).

BRADLEY SHOPE is Assistant Professor of Music at Texas A & M in Corpus Christi and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on popular music in India.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Companion Media

Introduction - Popular Music in India - Gregory D. Booth and Bradley Shope

Part One: Perspectives on Film Song
1. A Moment of Historical Conjuncture in Mumbai: Playback Singers, Music Directors, and Arrangers and the Creation of Hindi Song (1948-1952) - Gregory D. Booth
2. Global Masala: Digital Identities and Aesthetic Trajectories in Post-Liberalized Indian Film Music - Natalie Sarrazin
3. Kollywood Goes Global: New Sounds and Contexts for Tamil Film Music in the Twenty-First Century - Joseph Getter
4. On Nightingales and Moonlight: Songcrafting Femininity in Malluwood - Kaley Mason

Part 2: Audio Cultures, Music Videos, and Film Music
5. Film Song and Its Other: Tracing the Boundaries of Indian Music Genres - Jayson Beaster-Jones
6. Play it Again, Saraswathi: Gramophone, Religion, and Devotional Music in Colonial South India - Stephen Putnam Hughes
7. Filming the Bhangra Music Video - Anjali Gera Roy
8. Mimesis and Authenticity: The Case of "Thanda Thanda Pani" and Questions of Versioning in North Indian Popular Music - Peter Kvetko
9. Making Music Regional in a Delhi Studio - Stefan Fiol

Part 3: Live Music, Performance Cultures, and Re-mediation
10. Latin American Music in Moving Pictures and Jazzy Cabarets in Mumbai, 1930s to 1950s - Bradley Shope
11. The Beat Comes to India: The Incorporation Rock Music into the Indian Soundscape - Gregory D. Booth
12. "Be True to Yourself": Violin Ganesh, Fusion, and Contradictions in Contemporary Urban India - Niko Higgins
13. At Home in the Studio: The Sound of Manganiyar Music Going Popular - Shalini Ayyagari
14. The Liveness-es of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's Popular Abhangas - Anna Schultz
15. Bollywood in the Era of Filmsong Avatars: DJing, Remixing, and Change in the Film Music Industry of North India - Paul Greene

Afterword: Capitalisms and Cosmopolitanisms - Timothy D. Taylor
References
Films and Music Cited
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Since the 1980s, the Indian popular music scene has come to encompass much more than the Mumbai cinema hit parade. More than Bollywood presents a ground-breaking and illuminating set of essays which collectively broaden our understanding of Indian popular culture." — Peter Manuel, ethnomusicologist, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

"When the history of Indian popular music is finally written this collected volume will form its foundations. Its contributions are wide-ranging, and include discussions of the mighty Hindi film song, whose hybrid nature adapts and transforms other musical genres and styles, and is seen as dominating all forms of Indian popular music. Especially welcome are the chapters on non-Hindi film songs, non-filmi music, and the recording industry itself."— Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema, SOAS, University of London

"...Will make an impact on the study of popular music from a global perspective, and on the study of Indian culture." — New Zealand Journal oo Asian Studies

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