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Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai´s Film Studios
Gregory D. Booth
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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 21 black and white halftone and 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: APFX; AVA; AVGW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others-to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, the original fusion music. They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio performers in one of the most distinctive popular music and popular film cultures on the planet. Today, the songs played by Mumbai's studio musicians are known throughout India and the Indian diaspora under the popular name Bollywood, but the musicians themselves remain, in their own words, behind ... Read more
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others-to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, the original fusion music. They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio performers in one of the most distinctive popular music and popular film cultures on the planet. Today, the songs played by Mumbai's studio musicians are known throughout India and the Indian diaspora under the popular name Bollywood, but the musicians themselves remain, in their own words, behind ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
485g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195327649
SKU
V9780195327649
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About Gregory D. Booth
After early training in western classical music, Gregory D. Booth began the study of North Indian tabla drumming with Ustad Zakir Hussain in 1977. He has published widely on South Asian classical music pedagogy, processional music, and Hindi film music. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland.
Reviews for Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai´s Film Studios
Booth's inquiry is the first of its kind to embrace both film studies and studies on Indian film music ... and should be immensely useful to scholars of music, cinema studies and other social sciences.
Madhuja Mukherjee, Studies in Musical Theatre
Madhuja Mukherjee, Studies in Musical Theatre