Trending Bestseller

More Than Bollywood

No reviews yet Write a Review
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.
Paperback / softback
368 Pages
15-January-2014
$59.07
Ships in 3-5 business days

Delivery estimate

Hurry up! Current stock:
This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India. It brings together fourteen of the field's leading scholars to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes. The chapters in this volume address the impact of media and technology on contemporary music, the variety of industrial developments and contexts for Indian popular music, and historical trends in popular music development both before and after the Indian Independence in 1947. The contributors also address the subcontinent's historical relationships with colonialism, the transnational market economies, local governmental factors, international conventions, and a host of other circumstances that shed light on the development of popular music throughout India. To illustrate each chapter author's points, and to make available music otherwise not always easily accessible, the book features a companion website of audio and video tracks.
Product Details
ISBN-13
9780199928859
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Published
15-January-2014
Format
Paperback / softback
Pages
368

This product hasn't received any reviews yet. Be the first to review this product!

$59.07
Ships in 3-5 business days

Delivery estimate

Hurry up! Current stock:

More Than Bollywood

$59.07

Description

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India. It brings together fourteen of the field's leading scholars to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes. The chapters in this volume address the impact of media and technology on contemporary music, the variety of industrial developments and contexts for Indian popular music, and historical trends in popular music development both before and after the Indian Independence in 1947. The contributors also address the subcontinent's historical relationships with colonialism, the transnational market economies, local governmental factors, international conventions, and a host of other circumstances that shed light on the development of popular music throughout India. To illustrate each chapter author's points, and to make available music otherwise not always easily accessible, the book features a companion website of audio and video tracks.