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Author Booth, Gregory D

Title Behind the curtain : making music in Mumbai's film studios / Gregory D. Booth
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 321 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary This text examines the musicians who were composers, arrangers, assistants and studio performers in the Bollywood studios from the 1930s until the present. It offers a musical, technological, industrial, and social history of India's hegemonic popular music industry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-303) and index
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Subject Motion picture music -- Production and direction -- India -- Mumbai -- History
Motion picture music -- India -- Mumbai -- History and criticism
Motion picture industry -- India -- Mumbai -- History
Motion picture industry
Motion picture music
Filmmusik
Musikwirtschaft
Filmwirtschaft
24.63 theatre music, film music, ballet (music) and dance music.
Soundtracks.
India -- Mumbai
Bombay
Mumbai.
Bombay.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008007201
ISBN 0199852057
9780199852055