Music in Pacific Island Cultures: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series) by Diettrich Brian Freeman Moulin Jane Webb Michael (2011-11-17) Paperback

by Jayson Beaster-Jones

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume in the Global Music Series covers music in Melanesia, Micronesia, and French Polynesia, with each of the three authors covering one of the areas. Despite the constant switching among authors, the prose is pretty seamless. The subject matter is fascinating - I started this book knowing nothing about the music of the Pacific Islands and really got into it all over the course of the book. Even though Music in Pacific Island Cultures is by necessity an overview, it still conveyed all the richness and depth of a wide variety of musical cultures and practices.