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Pop Culture India!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781851096367)
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Asha Kasbekar Ph D.
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xThe over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume.
Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history. How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!Author: Asha Kasbekar Ph D.
ISBN-10: 1851096361
ISBN-13: 9781851096367
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2006
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.07lbs
Size: 10.32h x 7.18w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2007 pg. 500
By Asha Kasbekar Ph D.
xAsha Kasbekar is a freelance journalist specializing in popular culture. She has worked at the British Board of Film Classification, taught Indian cinema at the University of London, and published papers on Bollywood films.
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