Music in contemporary Indian film : memory, voice, identity / edited by Jayson Beaster-Jones, Natalie Sarrazin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaster-Jones, Jayson, editor.

Sarrazin, Natalie Rose, editor.

Series:

Routledge music and screen media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--India--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

India.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1942, a love story : R.D. Burman's posthumous "comeback" at the end of old Bollywood / Gregory Booth

Antakshari in Maine pyar kiya : intertextual pleasures and musical medleys at the dawn of a new era in Hindi cinema / Peter Kvetko

From vamp to queen : the remixed sound of the Bollywood scene / Ajay Gehlawat

Authorizing gesture : Mirchi Music Awards and the re-calibration of songs and stardom / Monika Mehta

Tensions of musical re-animation from Bollywood to Indian Idol / Anaar Desai-Stephens

Magic, destruction, and redemption in the soundtracks of Aashiqui 2, Rockstar, Rock on!! / Natalie Sarrazin

Violence, reconciliation, and memory : A.R. Rahman's "Bombay theme" / Jayson Beaster-Jones

Iconic voices in post-millennium Tamil cinema / Amanda Weidman

Folk drums and tribal girls : sounding the Himalayas in Indian film / Stefan Fiol

Film frontiers : imagining Rajasthan in contemporary Bollywood film / Shalini Ayyagari

Evolution of a ritual musical genre : the adaptation of qawwali in contemporary Hindi film / Irfan Zubedi & Natalie Sarrazin

Music, sound, noise : interposition of the local and the global in Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur / Madhuja Mukherjee.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Music in contemporary Indian film

ISBN:

9781138929357

1138929352

9781138929364

1138929360

OCLC:

946254919

Publisher Number:

40026578685