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Bollywood Sounds - The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (Hardcover)
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Bollywood Sounds - The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (Hardcover)
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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 promotion 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.
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