Bollywood Sounds The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song [Paperback]

Bollywood Soundsfocuses 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 Soundsillustrates 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 Soundsprovides 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.

Preface

Chapter 1: Bollywood Sounds
Chapter 2: Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the Emergence of Filmi Style
Chapter 3: 'But My Heart is Still Indian:' Film Songs of the Early Post-Colonial Era
Chapter 4: The Language and Lyrics of Hindi Films
Chapter 5: Songs in the Key of the Angry Young Man and the Cabaret Woman
Chapter 6: Liberalization, Family Films, and the Rise of Bollywood
Chapter 7: Film Songs in the Era of the Multiplex and YouTube
Chapter 8: Concluding Thoughts on the Art and Commerce of Hindi Film Songs

Appendix A: Timelines of Key Figures
Appendix B: Recommended Listening and Viewing

Glossary
Bibliography
Filmography
Discography

Bollywood Soundsis an exciting addition to the literature on Hindi film song. Beaster-Jones deftly weaves together song analysis, biography, and socio-political context to provide insights about meaning and style on every page. --Anna Schultz, Stanford University

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