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This book surveys the music of seventy years of Hindi films and provides a long-term investigation of film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions. Focusing on the music of Hindi language films (i.e. Bollywood) in their historical, social, and commercial contexts, the author pays special attention to the meanings that songs generate inside and outside film narratives and within Indian society at large. Songs are a vital component of film promotion on broadcast media, are distributed via soundtracks by music companies, and have long been the hegemonic popular music genre in India (even for people who rarely watch the films for which the songs were written). The book illustrates how film songs are produced through the collaboration of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in order to enhance the film narrative, but also to have commercial success outside of the film. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark songs, along with biographical and musical descriptions of the people who have crafted and performed these songs, this book illustrates how the creators of Hindi film songs have always mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices from Indian and international sources in order to produce a distinctive Indian music genre. This genre has always had cosmopolitan orientations, yet has consistently retained discrete sound and production practices over its long history.
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Keywords
- Bollywood
- Cosmopolitanism
- India
- Indian Film
- mediation
- Popular music
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- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATM Film, television, radio and performing arts genres
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLM Music of film and stage
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLP Popular music
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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199993468.001.0001Editions