Bollywood Sounds - The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song

Zusatztext Beaster-Jones has given the first broad historical sweep of Hindi film songs from the beginning of sound film and the birth of the Indian film song in 1931 to the present day of programming, Internet and cellphones. The book's deft and articulate interweaving of analysis of the musical sounds, styles and techniques of Hindi film songs with social, economic and political change greatly enriches our understanding of this sometimes bewilderingly dynamic phenomenon. Informationen zum Autor Jayson Beaster-Jones is Assistant Professor of Music and Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. He has conducted several years of ethnographic research on music, commodities, and value in the North Indian music industry. He has published his research in the journals Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, and South Asian Popular Culture and has contributed chapters to several edited volumes. Klappentext Bollywood Sounds surveys seventy years of Hindi film song as a cosmopolitan and overwhelmingly popular music of India. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones analyzes more than twenty landmark songs and provides insights into song production practices and influential music makers. Zusammenfassung Bollywood Sounds surveys seventy years of Hindi film song as a cosmopolitan and overwhelmingly popular music of India. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones analyzes more than twenty landmark songs and provides insights into song production practices and influential music makers.

Product details

• Authors: Jayson Beaster-Jones, Jayson (Assistant Professor of Musi Beaster-Jones
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9780199993468
• ISBN: 978-0-19-999346-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Medienwissenschaften, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, MUSIC / Ethnic