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Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
Booth, Gregory D. (Senior Lecturer, Ethnomusicology, Associate Dean (Research), Department of Anthropology and School of Music, Senior Lecturer, Ethnomusicology, Associate Dean (Research), Department of Anthropology and School of Music, University of Auck
Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
Booth, Gregory D. (Senior Lecturer, Ethnomusicology, Associate Dean (Research), Department of Anthropology and School of Music, Senior Lecturer, Ethnomusicology, Associate Dean (Research), Department of Anthropology and School of Music, University of Auck
Behind the Curtain 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 from the perspectives of the musicians and others who experienced it. is one of the few oral histories in ethnomusicology, and offers the first ground level view of this globallyimportant music industry.
332 pages, 21 black and white halftone and 3 line illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 13, 2008 |
Original release date | 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780195327632 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 229 × 152 × 22 mm · 657 g |
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