Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles
are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood
music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as
computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These
musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western films such as
Vanity Fair" and Moulin Rouge. "
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Global Bollywood "shows how this currency in popular culture and
among diasporic communities marks only the latest phase of the
genreOCOs world travels. 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 offer a stimulating
redefinition of globalization, highlighting the cultural influence
of Hindi film music from its origins early in the twentieth century
to today.
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Contributors: Walter Armbrust, Oxford U; Anustup Basu, U of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Colorado
College; Edward K. Chan, Kennesaw State U; Bettina David, Hamburg
U; Rajinder Dudrah, U of Manchester; Shanti Kumar, U of Texas,
Austin; Monika Mehta, Binghamton U; Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway
College; Ronie Parciack, Tel Aviv U; Biswarup Sen, U of Oregon;
Sangita Shrestova; Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, Shippensburg U.
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Sangita Gopal is assistant professor of English at the
University of Oregon. Sujata Moorti is professor of womenOCOs and
gender studies at Middlebury College."
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