Music in Contemporary Indian Film

Music in Contemporary Indian Film
Author: Jayson Beaster-Jones,Natalie Sarrazin
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781317399704

Download Music in Contemporary Indian Film Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Focus Popular Music in Contemporary India

Focus  Popular Music in Contemporary India
Author: Natalie Sarrazin
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780429999314

Download Focus Popular Music in Contemporary India Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India examines India’s musical soundscape beyond the classical and folk traditions of old to consider the culturally, socially, and politically rich contemporary music that is defining and energizing an Indian youth culture on the precipice of a major identity shift. From Bollywood film songs and Indo-jazz to bhangra hip-hop and Indian death metal, the book situates Indian popular music within critical and historical frameworks, highlighting the unprecedented changes the region’s music has undergone in recent decades. This critical approach provides readers with a foundation for understanding an Indian musical culture that is as diverse and complex as the region itself. Included are case studies featuring song notations, first-person narratives, and interviews of well-known artists and emerging musicians alike. Illuminated are issues of great import in India today—as reflected through its music—addressing questions of a "national" aesthetic, the effects of Western music, and identity politics as they relate to class, caste, LGBTQ perspectives, and other marginalized voices. Presented through a global lens, Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India contextualizes the dynamic popular music of India and its vast cultural impact.

More Than Bollywood

More Than Bollywood
Author: Gregory D. Booth,Bradley Shope
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2014
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780199928835

Download More Than Bollywood Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular musics in India. It brings together fourteen of the world's leading scholars on Indian popular music to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes, summarized by a reflective afterword by popular music scholar Timothy Taylor. 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 book identifies new ways of engaging popular music in India beyond the Bollywood musical canon, and offers several case studies of local and regional styles of music. The contributors address the subcontinent's historical relationships with colonialism, the transnational market economies, local governmental factors, international conventions, and a host of other circumstances to shed light on the development of popular music throughout India. To illustrate each chapter author's points, and to make available music not easily accessible in North America, the book features an Oxford web music companion website of audio and video tracks.

Indian Sound Cultures Indian Sound Citizenship

Indian Sound Cultures  Indian Sound Citizenship
Author: Laura Brueck,Jacob Smith,Neil Verma
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780472054343

Download Indian Sound Cultures Indian Sound Citizenship Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state. Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. “Scapes, Sites, and Circulations” considers the spatial and circulatory ways in which sound “happens” in and around Indian sound cultures, including diasporic cultures. “Voice” emphasizes voices that embody a variety of struggles and ambiguities, particularly around gender and performance. Finally, “Cinema Sound” make specific arguments about film sound in the Indian context, from the earliest days of talkie technology to contemporary Hindi films and experimental art installations. Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian Studies by questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to the sonic world of the subcontinent.

Contemporary India

Contemporary India
Author: Katharine Adeney,Andrew Wyatt
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-08-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780230364349

Download Contemporary India Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A broad-ranging introduction to politics and society in India, set in a historical and cultural context. Written by two expert authors it assumes no prior knowledge but aims to provide a balanced and nuanced understanding of the key issues that have faced India since independence and the challenges it confronts in the 21st century.

The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema

The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema
Author: Ajay Gehlawat,Rajinder Dudrah
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781000448955

Download The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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. As song ‘picturizations’, as they are frequently called, have evolved, shifting from little more than impromptu moves around tree trunks to highly choreographed affairs featuring scores of professional dancers and exotic backgrounds, their theorization has also developed beyond the initial, peremptory dismissals of earlier critics. Featuring a landmark collection of essays from leading theorists, as well as newer contributions from up-and-coming scholars, this book develops new and exciting ways of thinking about song and dance in Hindi cinema and, in turn, explores how these elements work to (re)define popular Hindi cinema in the twenty-first century. This collection will be of interest to students and scholars of Hindi cinema, musicals, and global popular cultures. It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Musicals at the Margins

Musicals at the Margins
Author: Julie Lobalzo Wright,Martha Shearer
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781501357091

Download Musicals at the Margins Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

But is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit uncomfortably in the category despite evident musical connections. Musicals at the Margins argues that instead of seeking to resolve such questions, we should leave them unanswered and unsettled, proposing that there is value in examining the unstable edges of genre. This collection explores the marginal musical in a diverse range of historical and global contexts. It encompasses a range of different forms of marginality including boundary texts (films/media that are sort of/not quite musicals), musical sequences (marginalized sequences in musicals; musical sequences in non-musicals), music films, musicals of the margins (musicals produced from social, cultural, geographical, and geopolitical margins), and musicals across media (television and new media). Ultimately these essays argue that marginal genre texts tell us a great deal about the musical specifically and genre more broadly.

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
Author: Sarah Baker,Catherine Strong,Lauren Istvandity,Zelmarie Cantillon
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2018-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781315299297

Download The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations of the changing nature of the past in post-industrial societies play out in the field of popular music. In-depth chapters cover key themes around historiography, heritage, memory and institutions, alongside case studies from around the world, including the UK, Australia, South Africa and India, exploring popular music’s connection to culture both past and present. Wide-ranging in scope, the book is an excellent introduction for students and scholars working in musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, critical heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies and other related fields.