Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199862542)

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 highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.

Author: Jayson Beaster-Jones
ISBN-10: 0199862540
ISBN-13: 9780199862542
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2014
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d