Music in Contemporary Indian Film Memory, Voice, Identity

• Other Authors: Beaster-Jones, Jayson (Editor), Sarrazin, Natalie (Editor)
• Format: Musical Score Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2017
• Subjects: Motion picture music > History and criticism > India
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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 su...

Table of Contents:

• IntroductionPart I: Hindi Hegemony 1. 1942 - A Love Story: R.D. Burman's Posthumous "Comeback" at the End of Old Bollywood (Gregory D. Booth)2. Antakshari in Maine Pyar Kiya: Intertextual Pleasures and Musical Medleys at the Dawn of a New Era in Hindi Cinema (Peter Kvetko)3. From Vamp to Queen: The Remixed Sound of the Bollywood Scene (Ajay Gehlawat)4. Authorizing Gesture: Mirchi Music Awards and the Re-calibration of Songs and Stardom (Monika Mehta)5. Tensions of Musical Re-animation from Bollywood to Indian Idol (Anaar Desai-Stephens)6. Magic, Destruction, and Redemption in the Soundtracks of Aashiqui 2, RockStar, Rock On!! (Natalie Sarrazin)Part II: Regions and Identities7. Violence, Reconciliation, and Memory: A.R. Rahman's "Bombay Theme" (Jayson Beaster-Jones)8. Iconic Voices in Post-Millennium Tamil Cinema (Amanda Weidman)9. Folk Drums and Tribal Girls: Sounding the Himalayas in Indian Film (Stefan Fiol)10. Film Frontiers: Imagining Rajasthan in Contemporary Bollywood Film (Shalini Ayyagari)11. Evolution of a Ritual Musical Genre: The Adaptation of Qawwali in Contemporary Hindi Film (Irfan Zuberi and Natalie Sarrazin)12. Music, Sound, Noise: Interposition of the Local and the Global in Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur (Madhuja Mukherjee)Afterword (Rachel Dwyer)