Behind the Curtain
Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 October 2009
- ISBN 9780195327632
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 152x229x22 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 black and white halftone and 3 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Behind the Curtain examines the musicians who were composers, arrangers, assistants and studio performers in the Bollywood studios from the 1930s until the present. It offers a musical, technological, industrial, and social history of India's hegemonic popular music industry from the perspectives of the musicians and others who experienced it. is one of the few oral histories in ethnomusicology, and offers the first ground level view of this globally important music industry.
MoreLong description:
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio performers in one of the most distinctive popular music and popular film cultures on the planet. Today, the songs played by Mumbai's studio musicians are known throughout India and the Indian diaspora under the popular name "Bollywood," but the musicians themselves remain, in their own words, "behind the curtain"--the anonymous and unseen performers of one of the world's most celebrated popular music genres.
Now, Gregory D. Booth offers a compelling account of the Bollywood film music industry from the perspective of the musicians who both experienced and shaped its history. In a rare insider's look at the process of musical production from the late 1940s to the mid 1990s, before the advent of digital recording technologies, Booth explains who these unknown musicians were and how they came to join the film music industry. On the basis of a fascinating set of first-hand accounts from the musicians themselves, he reveals how the day-to-day circumstances of technology and finance shaped both the songs and the careers of their creator and performers. Booth also unfolds the technological, cultural, and industrial developments that led to the enormous studio orchestras of the 1960s-90s as well as the factors which ultimately led to their demise in contemporary India.
Featuring an extensive companion website with video interviews with the musicians themselves, Behind the Curtain is a powerful, ground-level view of this globally important music industry.
You won't find a better primer than this pocket-size one...Her tone is intelligent, invigorating and well-informed. Superb.
Table of Contents:
Introduction - Who is Anthony Gonsalves?
Part One - History, Technology, and a Determinist Milieu for Hindi Film Song
Popular Music as Film Music
Musicians and Technology in the Mumbai Film Music Industry
Changing Structures in the Mumbai Film Industry
Part Two - The Life of Music in the Mumbai Film Industry
Origins, Training, and "Joining the Line"
Roles, Relations, and the Creative Process
Rehearsals, Recordings, and Economics
Part Three - Music, Instruments, and Meaning from Musicians' Perspectives
Orchestras and Orchestral Procedures, Instrumental Change, Arranging, and Programming
Issues of Style, Genre, and Value in Mumbai Film Music
Conclusion - Oral History, Change, and Accounts of Human Agency
