Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity

Contents

• Introduction
• Part I: Hindi Hegemony
• 1. 1942 - A Love Story: R.D. Burman's Posthumous "Comeback" at the End of Old Bollywood (Gregory D. Booth)
• 2. Antakshari in Maine Pyar Kiya: Intertextual Pleasures and Musical Medleys at the Dawn of a New Era in Hindi Cinema (Peter Kvetko)
• 3. From Vamp to Queen : The Remixed Sound of the Bollywood Scene (Ajay Gehlawat)
• 4. Authorizing Gesture: Mirchi Music Awards and the Re-calibration of Songs and Stardom (Monika Mehta)
• 5. Tensions of Musical Re-animation from Bollywood to Indian Idol (Anaar Desai-Stephens)
• 6. Magic, Destruction, and Redemption in the Soundtracks of Aashiqui 2 , RockStar , Rock On!! (Natalie Sarrazin)
• Part II: Regions and Identities
• 7. Violence, Reconciliation, and Memory: A.R. Rahman's "Bombay Theme" (Jayson Beaster-Jones)
• 8. Iconic Voices in Post-Millennium Tamil Cinema (Amanda Weidman)
• 9. Folk Drums and Tribal Girls: Sounding the Himalayas in Indian Film (Stefan Fiol)
• 10. Film Frontiers: Imagining Rajasthan in Contemporary Bollywood Film (Shalini Ayyagari)
• 11. Evolution of a Ritual Musical Genre: The Adaptation of Qawwali in Contemporary Hindi Film (Irfan Zuberi and Natalie Sarrazin)
• 12. Music, Sound, Noise: Interposition of the Local and the Global in Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur (Madhuja Mukherjee)
• Afterword (Rachel Dwyer)