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.

List of ContributorsList of FiguresList of Companion MediaIntroduction - Popular Music in India - Gregory D. Booth and Bradley ShopePart One: Perspectives on Film Song1. A Moment of Historical Conjuncture in Mumbai: Playback Singers, Music Directors, and Arrangers and the Creation of Hindi Song (1948-1952) - Gregory D. Booth2. Global Masala: Digital Identities and Aesthetic Trajectories in Post-Liberalized Indian Film Music - Natalie Sarrazin3. Kollywood Goes Global: New Sounds and Contexts for Tamil Film Music in the Twenty-First Century - Joseph Getter4. On Nightingales and Moonlight: Songcrafting Femininity in Malluwood - Kaley MasonPart 2: Audio Cultures, Music Videos, and Film Music5. Film Song and Its Other: Tracing the Boundaries of Indian Music Genres - Jayson Beaster-Jones6. Play it Again, Saraswathi: Gramophone, Religion, and Devotional Music in Colonial South India - Stephen Putnam Hughes7. Filming the Bhangra Music Video - Anjali Gera Roy8. Mimesis and Authenticity: The Case of "Thanda Thanda Pani" and Questions of Versioning in North Indian Popular Music - Peter Kvetko9. Making Music Regional in a Delhi Studio - Stefan FiolPart 3: Live Music, Performance Cultures, and Re-mediation10. Latin American Music in Moving Pictures and Jazzy Cabarets in Mumbai, 1930s to 1950s - Bradley Shope11. The Beat Comes to India: The Incorporation Rock Music into the Indian Soundscape - Gregory D. Booth12. "Be True to Yourself": Violin Ganesh, Fusion, and Contradictions in Contemporary Urban India - Niko Higgins13. At Home in the Studio: The Sound of Manganiyar Music Going Popular - Shalini Ayyagari14. The Liveness-es of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's Popular Abhangas - Anna Schultz15. Bollywood in the Era of Filmsong Avatars: DJing, Remixing, and Change in the Film Music Industry of North India - Paul GreeneAfterword: Capitalisms and Cosmopolitanisms - Timothy D. TaylorReferencesFilms and Music CitedIndex