Booth, Gregory D. - More Than Bollywood

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular musics in India. Fourteen of the world's leading scholars on Indian popular music have contributed chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to Indian rock music, summarized by a reflective afterword by popular music scholar Timothy Taylor.

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CONTENTS

List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Companion Media
Introduction - Popular Music in India - Gregory D. Booth and Bradley Shope
Part One: Perspectives on Film Song
1. A Moment of Historical Conjuncture in Mumbai: Playback Singers, Music Directors, and Arrangers and the Creation of Hindi Song (1948-1952) - Gregory D. Booth
2. Global Masala: Digital Identities and Aesthetic Trajectories in Post-Liberalized Indian Film Music - Natalie Sarrazin
3. Kollywood Goes Global: New Sounds and Contexts for Tamil Film Music in the Twenty-First Century - Joseph Getter
4. On Nightingales and Moonlight: Songcrafting Femininity in Malluwood - Kaley Mason
Part 2: Audio Cultures, Music Videos, and Film Music
5. Film Song and Its Other: Tracing the Boundaries of Indian Music Genres - Jayson Beaster-Jones
6. Play it Again, Saraswathi: Gramophone, Religion, and Devotional Music in Colonial South India - Stephen Putnam Hughes
7. Filming the Bhangra Music Video - Anjali Gera Roy
8. Mimesis and Authenticity: The Case of Thanda Thanda Pani and Questions of Versioning in North Indian Popular Music - Peter Kvetko
9. Making Music Regional in a Delhi Studio - Stefan Fiol
Part 3: Live Music, Performance Cultures, and Re-mediation
10. Latin American Music in Moving Pictures and Jazzy Cabarets in Mumbai, 1930s to 1950s - Bradley Shope
11. The Beat Comes to India: The Incorporation Rock Music into the Indian Soundscape - Gregory D. Booth
12. Be True to Yourself: Violin Ganesh, Fusion, and Contradictions in Contemporary Urban India - Niko Higgins
13. At Home in the Studio: The Sound of Manganiyar Music Going Popular - Shalini Ayyagari
14. The Liveness-es of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's Popular Abhangas - Anna Schultz
15. Bollywood in the Era of Filmsong Avatars: DJing, Remixing, and Change in the Film Music Industry of North India - Paul Greene
Afterword: Capitalisms and Cosmopolitanisms - Timothy D. Taylor
References
Films and Music Cited
Index