Anna Morcom, Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007 [xii, 281 pp. ISBN 9780754651987. $44.95 (paperback)]. SOAS Musicology Series.

Authors

  • Beth Szczepanski Whitman College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.31222

Keywords:

Hindi film industry, Bollywood, Film music

Author Biography

  • Beth Szczepanski, Whitman College

    Beth Szczepanski teaches courses on world music at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Her research focuses on music in Chinese Buddhism, and her book, The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan’s Buddhist Monasteries, was published by Ashgate in 2012. In 2015, “Impossible Melodies: Octave Cycles and Illusory Pitch Shifts in a North Chinese Wind Repertoire” appeared in Analytic Approaches to World Music. Beth holds a Master’s degree in Historical Musicology and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from The Ohio State University.

References

Dwyer, Rachel and Christopher Pinney. Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics, and Consumption of Popular Culture in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Manuel, Peter. Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Morcom, Anna. Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema. Aldershot, Hampsire: Ashgate, 2007.

Morcom, Anna. "Terrains of Bollywood Dance: (Neoliberal) Capitalism and the Transformation of Cultural Economies." Ethnomusicology 59, no. 2 (2015): 288-314.

Prasad, Madhav. Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Vasudevan, Ravi. "Addressing the Spectator of a ‘Third World' National Cinema: The Bombay ‘Social' Film of the 1940s and 1950s." Screen 36, no. 4 (1995): 305-324.

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Published

2017-05-03

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Vol. 7 No. 1

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How to Cite

Szczepanski, B. (2017). Anna Morcom, Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007 [xii, 281 pp. ISBN 9780754651987. $44.95 (paperback)]. SOAS Musicology Series. Journal of Film Music, 7(1), 99-100. https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.31222