Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations Of Hindi Film Song

This title 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 (id est 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.

• | Author: Jayson Beaster-Jones|Brian Diettrich|Jane Freeman Moulin|Michael Hugh Webb
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 07, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0199862540
• | ISBN-13: 9780199862542