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Title Global Bollywood : travels of Hindi song and dance / Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti, editors
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations
Contents Tapping the mass market : the commercial life of Hindi film songs / Anna Morcom -- The sounds of modernity : the evolution of Bollywood film song / Biswarup Sen -- From Bombay to Bollywood : tracking cinematic and musical tours / Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Monika Mehta -- Bollywood and beyond : the transnational economy of film production in Ramoji film city, Hyderbad / Shanti Kumar -- The music of intolerable love : political conjugality in Mani Ratnam's Dil se / Anustup Basu -- Intimate neighbors : Bollywood, dangdut music, and globalizing modernities in Indonesia / Bettina David -- The ubiquitous nonpresence of India : peripheral visions from Egyptian popular culture / Walter Armbrust -- Appropriating the uncodable : Hindi song and dance sequences in Israeli state promotional commercials / Ronie Parciack -- Dancing to an Indian beat : "Dola" goes my diasporic heart / Sangita Shresthova -- Food and cassettes : encounters with Indian filmsong / Edward K. Chan -- Queer as desis : secret politics of gender and sexuality in Bollywood films in diasporic urban ethnoscapes / Rajinder Dudrah -- Bollywood gets funky : American hip-hop, basement bhangra, and the racial politics of music / Richard Zumkhawala-Cook
Summary This interdisciplinary collection describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle. Examining the reception of Bollywood music in places as diverse as Indonesia and Israel, the essays highlight the cultural influence of Hindi film music from its origins to today. Contributors: Walter Armbrust, Anustup Basu, Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Edward K. Chan, Bettina David, Rajinder Dudrah, Shanti Kumar, Monika Mehta, Anna Morcom, Ronie Parciack, Biswarup Sen, Sangita Shrestova, Richard Zumkhawala-Cook
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Motion pictures -- India.
Motion picture music -- India
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Motion picture music
Motion pictures
India
Form Electronic book
Author Gopal, Sangita, editor.
Moorti, Sujata, 1963- editor.
ISBN 9780816656448
0816656444