Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 512 g
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 512 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-999346-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
ambassadors to individual and cultural memories in India and abroad, however, they are significant and carefully-constructed works of art.
Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, and commercial contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones walks the reader through the highly collaborative songs, detailing the contributions of film directors, music directors and composers, lyricists, musicians, and singers. A vital component of film promotion on broadcast media, Bollywood songs are distributed on soundtracks by music companies, and have long been the most popular music genre in India -
even among listeners who rarely see the movies. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs mediate a variety of influences, musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create this
distinctive genre. Beaster-Jones argues that, even from the moment of its inception, the film song genre has always been in the unique position of demonstrating cosmopolitan orientations while maintaining discrete sound and production practices over its long history. As a survey of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds is the first monograph to provide a long-term historical insights into Hindi film songs, and their musical and cinematic conventions, in ways that
will appeal both to scholars and newcomers to Indian cinema.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Nichtwestliche Musik
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Andere zeitgenössische Musikrichtungen