Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song

by Armande Roland

Overview

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199993482
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/09/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jayson Beaster-Jones is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Merced.

Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1: Bollywood Sounds Chapter 2: Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the Emergence of Filmi Style Chapter 3: 'But My Heart is Still Indian:' Film Songs of the Early Post-Colonial Era Chapter 4: The Language and Lyrics of Hindi Films Chapter 5: Songs in the Key of the Angry Young Man and the Cabaret Woman Chapter 6: Liberalization, Family Films, and the Rise of Bollywood Chapter 7: Film Songs in the Era of the Multiplex and YouTube Chapter 8: Concluding Thoughts on the Art and Commerce of Hindi Film Songs Appendix A: Timelines of Key Figures Appendix B: Recommended Listening and Viewing Glossary Bibliography Filmography Discography