| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Bollywood sounds -- Film songs at the end of the colonial era and the emergence of filmi style -- "But my heart is still Indian" : film songs of the early post-colonial era -- The language and lyrics of Hindi films -- Songs in the key of angry young man and the cabaret woman -- Liberalization, family films, and the rise of Bollywood -- Film songs in the era of the multiplex and YouTube -- Concluding thoughts on the art and commerce of Hindi film songs |
| Summary |
This title surveys the music of seventy years of Hindi films and provides a long-term investigation of film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions. Focusing on the music of Hindi language films (i.e. Bollywood) in their historical, social, and commercial contexts, the author pays special attention to the meanings that songs generate inside and outside film narratives and within Indian society at large |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion picture music -- India -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Motion picture music
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Filmmusik
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Bollywood
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India
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Indien
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014006919 |
| ISBN |
9780199993482 |
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0199993483 |
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