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Behind the Curtain - Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios (Paperback)
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Behind the Curtain - Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios (Paperback)
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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 apowerful,
ground-level view of this globally important music industry.
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