Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity

Music in Contemporary Indian Film- Front Cover
Music in Contemporary Indian Film
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
	Figures
	Tables
Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction
	Indian Film Industries
	Writing on Indian Film
	Conventions, Music, and Personnel of Indian Film Songs
	Case Study: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G) (Johar 2001)
	Chapter Themes and Overview
	Notes
	References
PART I: Hindi Hegemony
Chapter 1: 1942 – A Love Story: R.D. Burman’s Posthumous “Comeback” at the End of Old Bollywood
	Ends, Beginnings, and Transitions in Mumbai’s Film and Music Industry
	R.D. Burman in the World of Hindi Film Song
	The Songs of 1942 – A Love Story
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 2:  Antakshari in Maine Pyar Kiya: Intertextual Pleasures and Musical Medleys at the Dawn of a New Era in Hindi Cinema
	Introduction
	The Film and Its Context
	The Antakshari Scene
	Meaning and Significance
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: From Vamp to Queen: The Remixed Sound of the Bollywood Scene
	The Remix Phenomenon
	The Original
	Reviving the Retro
	Conclusion, a.k.a. End-Credits Sequence
	Notes
	References
	Website
Chapter 4: Authorizing Gesture: Mirchi Music Awards and the Re-calibration of Songs and Stardom
	Awards Ceremonies as Shows
	Aural and Visual Performances
	Bombay Cinema and Television
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Tensions of Musical Re-animation from Bollywood to Indian Idol
	Hindi Film Songs in and beyond the Film
	The Emergence of Reality Music TV in a Changing India
	Bollywood Songs and Insider Influence
	“Jab tak hai jaan”: From Sholay to Indian Idol
	Re-animating and Re-inscribing the Original
	Coda: Failures and Successes
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Magic, Destruction, and Redemption in the Soundtracks of Aashiqui 2, RockStar, and Rock On!!
	Rock in India: The Exotic Years
	Rock’s Emergence
	Only Rock Can Save You: The Use of Rock inAashiqui 2, Rock On!!, and RockStar
	A New Genre for a New Era
	Magic, Destruction, and Redemption
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
PART II: Regions and Identities
Chapter 7: Violence, Reconciliation, and Memory: A.R. Rahman’s “Bombay Theme”
	Film Song, Film Music
	The Bombay Soundtrack
	Music, Film, and Memory
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Iconic Voices in Post-Millennium Tamil Cinema
	“Why This Kolaveri Di”
	The Anti-Playback Aesthetic
	Language, Sound, and the Cultural Politics of Masculinity
	Item Numbers and Mass Hero Films
	Sound and Meaning in “Kalasala”
	Gender and the Management of Relatedness
	Conclusion: Why This Kolaveri (and That Kalasala)?
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
	Websites
Chapter 9: Folk Drums and Tribal Girls: Sounding the Himalayas in Indian Film
	Sounding Himalayan Folk
	Madhumati (Roy 1958)
	Film Music in the Indian Himalayas
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Film Frontiers: Imagining Rajasthan in Contemporary Bollywood Film
	Introduction: A Precarious Space
	Regional Articulations of Identity
	Rajasthan as Distillation of the Nation
	Developing the State in Rajasthan
	Dor: A Widow’s Freedom?
	Paheli: A Woman’s Choice
	Coda
	Note
	References
	Websites
Chapter 11: Evolution of a Ritual Musical Genre: The Adaptation of Qawwali in Contemporary Hindi Film
	Introduction: Sama (Listening)
	The Context of Khanaqahı Qawwalı
	Transformation One: From the Hermitage (khanaqah) to the Shrine (dargah)
	Transformation Two: Qawwali to Filmi Qawwali
	Qawwali in Hindi Cinema
	“Khwaja mere khwaja . . . ” Jodhaa Akbar (Gowariker 2008)
	Qawwali’s Next Transformation: Rock-Pop-Techno Qawwali
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 12: Music, Sound, Noise: Interposition of the Local and the Global in Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur
	Mixing Music: Melody, Disco, and Contexts of Memory
	Mixing Noise: The Local/Global in Anurag Kashyap Films
	Sonic Explorations in Gangs of Wasseypur
	Sound Trippin’: Sneha Khanwalkar’s Sound Innovations
	Khanwalkar and Kashyap’s Partnership
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Afterword
	Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity
	Singers and Voices
	The Song in the Film
	Songs and Different Types of Love
	Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index