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Global Bollywood : travels of Hindi song and dance / Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--India.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture music--India.
- Motion picture music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western films such as Vanity Fair and Moulin Rouge. Global Bollywood shows how this currency in popular culture and among diasporic communities marks only the latest phase of the genre's world travels. This interdisciplinary collection describes the many roots and r
- Contents:
- Tapping the mass market : the commercial life of Hindi film songs / Anna Morcom
- The sounds of modernity : the evolution of Bollywood film song / Biswarup Sen
- From Bombay to Bollywood : tracking cinematic and musical tours / Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Monika Mehta
- Bollywood and beyond : the transnational economy of film production in Ramoji film city, Hyderbad / Shanti Kumar
- The music of intolerable love : political conjugality in Mani Ratnam's Dil se / Anustup Basu
- Intimate neighbors : Bollywood, dangdut music, and globalizing modernities in Indonesia / Bettina David
- The ubiquitous nonpresence of India : peripheral visions from Egyptian popular culture / Walter Armbrust
- Appropriating the uncodable : Hindi song and dance sequences in Israeli state promotional commercials / Ronie Parciack
- Dancing to an Indian beat : "Dola" goes my diasporic heart / Sangita Shresthova
- Food and cassettes : encounters with Indian filmsong / Edward K. Chan
- Queer as desis : secret politics of gender and sexuality in Bollywood films in diasporic urban ethnoscapes / Rajinder Dudrah
- Bollywood gets funky : American hip-hop, basement bhangra, and the racial politics of music / Richard Zumkhawala-Cook.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5644-4
- OCLC:
- 476162528
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