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Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance - Softcover

 
9780816645794: Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816645795 ISBN 13: 9780816645794
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008

Synopsis

Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western films such as Vanity Fair and Moulin Rouge.

 

Global Bollywood shows how this currency in popular culture and among diasporic communities marks only the latest phase of the genre’s world travels. This interdisciplinary collection describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle. Examining the reception of Bollywood music in places as diverse as Indonesia and Israel, the essays offer a stimulating redefinition of globalization, highlighting the cultural influence of Hindi film music from its origins early in the twentieth century to today.

 

Contributors: Walter Armbrust, Oxford U; Anustup Basu, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Colorado College; Edward K. Chan, Kennesaw State U; Bettina David, Hamburg U; Rajinder Dudrah, U of Manchester; Shanti Kumar, U of Texas, Austin; Monika Mehta, Binghamton U; Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway College; Ronie Parciack, Tel Aviv U; Biswarup Sen, U of Oregon; Sangita Shrestova; Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, Shippensburg U.

 

Sangita Gopal is assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon. Sujata Moorti is professor of women’s and gender studies at Middlebury College.

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Song-and-dance sequences are the hallmark of Bollywood films. Gopal (English, U. of Oregon) and Moorti (women's and gender studies, Middlebury College) introduce a dozen chapters that explore national and international aspects of this Indian genre. In cultural and historical contexts, contributors examine commercial and identity issues for home and

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816645795
ISBN 13 
9780816645794
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352
Editor
Gopal Sangita, Moorti Sujata