More Than Bollywood ― Studies in Indian Popular Music

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India. It brings together fourteen of the field's leading scholars to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes. The chapters in this volume address the impact of media and technology on contemporary music, the variety of industrial developments and contexts for Indian popular music, and historical trends in popular music development both before and after the Indian Independence in 1947. The contributors also address the subcontinent's historical relationships with colonialism, the transnational market economies, local governmental factors, international conventions, and a host of other circumstances that shed light on the development of popular music throughout India. To illustrate each chapter author's points, and to make available music otherwise not always easily accessible, the book features a companion website of audio and video tracks.

GREGORY D. BOOTH is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Auckland and author of Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios (OUP 2008) and Brass Baja: Stories from the World of Indian Wedding Bands (OUP 2005).

BRADLEY SHOPE is Assistant Professor of Music at Texas A & M in Corpus Christi and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on popular music in India.