Bollywood Sounds
The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 December 2014
- ISBN 9780199862542
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 231x155x15 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 b&w halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
The vast majority of films produced by Mumbai's commercial Hindi language film industry - known world-wide as Bollywood - feature songs as a central component of the cinematic narrative. While many critics have addressed the visual characteristics of these song sequences, very few have engaged with their aurality and with the meanings that they generate within the film narrative and within Indian society at large. Because the film songs operate as powerful sonic ambassadors to individual and cultural memories in India and abroad, however, they are significant and carefully-constructed works of art.
Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, and commercial contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones walks the reader through the highly collaborative songs, detailing the contributions of film directors, music directors and composers, lyricists, musicians, and singers. A vital component of film INSERT: Featured in British Forum for Ethnomusicology insert 2014 on broadcast media, Bollywood songs are distributed on soundtracks by music companies, and have long been the most popular music genre in India - even among listeners who rarely see the movies. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs mediate a variety of influences, musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create this distinctive genre. Beaster-Jones argues that, even from the moment of its inception, the film song genre has always been in the unique position of demonstrating cosmopolitan orientations while maintaining discrete sound and production practices over its long history. As a survey of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds is the first monograph to provide a long-term historical insights into Hindi film songs, and their musical and cinematic conventions, in ways that will appeal both to scholars and newcomers to Indian cinema.
Bollywood Sounds is an exciting addition to the literature on Hindi film song. Beaster-Jones deftly weaves together song analysis, biography, and socio-political context to provide insights about meaning and style on every page.
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
