Behind the Curtain Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios

Name: Behind the Curtain Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
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ISBN: 9780195327649

ISBN-10: 0195327640

ISBN-13: 9780195327649

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gregory D. Booth

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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 the curtain"--the anonymous and unseen performers of one of the world's most celebrated popular…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction: Who Is Anthony Gonsalves?



History, Technology, and a Determinist Milieu for Hindi Film Song



Popular Music as Film Music



Musicians and Technology in the Mumbai Film-Music Industry



Changing Structures in the Mumbai Film Industry



The Life of Music in the Mumbai Film Industry



Origins, Training, and "Joining the Line"



Roles, Relations, and the Creative Process



Rehearsals, Recordings, and Economics



Music, Instruments, and Meaning from Musicians' Perspectives



Orchestras and Orchestral Procedures, Instrumental Change, Arranging, and Programming



Issues of Style, Genre, and Value in Mumbai Film Music


Conclusion: Oral History, Change, and Accounts of Human Agency


Notes


References


Index