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  • Dil Chahta Hai Soundtrack

    by Prof Jayson Beaster-Jones ...
    Series series 33 1/3 South Asia
    The 2001 buddy film Dil Chahta Hai (dir. Farhan Akhtar), had arguably the first rock soundtrack in Bollywood. The award-winning soundtrack is an entry point into the relationship between Bollywood film songs, Hindi language music, and the Indi-pop movement of the '80s and '90s.Beaster-Jones draws from reviews by music critics and fans, industry interviews, and his own close analysis of the... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas

    Edited by Ajay Gehlawat, Jayson Beaster-Jones ...
    The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas is the first collection of original contributions to comprehensively analyze one of the most diverse and prolific cinema-producing regions of the world. It features chapters by up-and-coming and established scholars from a diverse array of academic specialties that survey South Asian cinemas, placing an emphasis on new, emerging, and underexplored ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Music Commodities, Markets, and Values

    Music as Merchandise

    by Jayson Beaster-Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
    This bookexamines music stores as sites of cultural production in contemporary India. Analyzing social practices of selling music in a variety of retail contexts, it focuses upon the economic and social values that are produced and circulated by music retailers in the marketplace. Based upon research conducted over a volatile ten-year period of the Indian music industry, Beaster-Jones discusses ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bollywood Sounds

    The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song

    by Jayson Beaster-Jones ...
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Music in Contemporary Indian Film

    Memory, Voice, Identity

    Edited by Jayson Beaster-Jones, Natalie Sarrazin ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film. Music is at the center of Indian cinema, and India’s film music industry has a far-reaching impact on popular, folk, and classical music across the subcontinent and the South Asian diaspora. In twelve essays written by an international array of scholars, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • How Music Works

    by David Byrne ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual” ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Tamil Cinema

    The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

    Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It outlines its history and distinctive characteristics, and proceeds to consider a number of important ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Every Song Ever

    Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

    by Ben Ratliff ...
    What is music in the age of the cloud? Today, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. It is possible to flit instantly across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. This new age of listening brings with it astonishing new possibilities--as well as dangers.In Every Song Ever, the veteran New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff reimagines the very ... Read more

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  • Bollywood

    A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

    by Tejaswini Ganti ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and enthusiastic audiences from India to West Africa to Russia, and throughout the English-speaking world ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Global Bollywood

    Travels of Hindi Song and Dance

    Edited by Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti ...
    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.Global Bollywood shows how this currency in popular ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bollywood

    Gods, Glamour, and Gossip

    by Kush Varia ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    While we have become familiar with the idea of "Bollywood" here in the West, we know little about the industry's films beyond a certain celebration of kitsch. Bollywood, the latest in Wallflower Press's Short Cuts introductory series, surveys this style of filmmaking from its origins in colonial times to the present, tracing its impact on both the Indian and global imagination. Chapters explore ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Other Classical Musics

    Fifteen Great Traditions

    by Michael Church, Scott DeVeaux, Ivan Hewett, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus, Robert Labaree, Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Will Sumits, Terry E. Miller, Neil Sorrell0, David Hughes1, Frank Kouwenhoven2, Richard Widdess3, Jonathan Katz4, Roderic Knight5 ...
    Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The EconomistWhatis classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD