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Global Bollywood by Anandam P. Kavoori (Editor); Aswin Punathambekar (Editor)
Call Number: HM851 .D4325 2016 v. 1-2 Print Books
ISBN: 9780814747995
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
Bollywood is one of the most prolific film industries in the world. Based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the industry churns out hundreds of films each year--primarily melodramatic films with music and elaborately choreographed dance routines. Bollywood's popularity is quickly spreading across the globe, and, beyond the films themselves, Bollywood has made its way into global popular culture. Global Bollywood brings together leading scholars to examine the transnational and transmedia terrain of Bollywood. Defining Bollywood as an arena of public culture distinct from Hindi-language Bombay cinema, this volume offers a new critical framework for analyzing the institutional, cultural, and political dimensions of Bollywood films and film music as they begin to constitute an important circuit of global flows in the twenty-first century. Organized thematically, the book examines contestations surrounding the term "Bollywood," changing relations between the state and the film industry, convergence with television and new media, online fan culture, film journalism, and the reception and negotiations of gender and sexuality in diverse socio-cultural contexts. Global Bollywood is indispensable for understanding not only Bollywood cinema and culture but also how global media flows are reconfiguring relationships among geography, cultural production, and cultural identity.
Indigenous Pop by Jeff Berglund (Editor); Jan Johnson (Editor); Kimberli Lee (Editor)
ISBN: 0816533733
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Popular music compels, it entertains, and it has the power to attract and move audiences. With that in mind, the editors of Indigenous Pop showcase the contributions of American Indian musicians to popular forms of music, including jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae, punk, and hip hop.
Salsa! by Hernando Calvo Ospina; Nick Caistor (Translator)
Call Number: ML3475 .C3513 1995
ISBN: 090615698X
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
A journey through the development of modern Salsa music. An evocative use of song lyrics bring color and passion to this lively profile of Latin dance music.
The Book of Klezmer by Yale Strom
Call Number: ML3528.8 .S77 2002
ISBN: 1556524455
Publication Date: 2002-08-01
Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been reborn, with dozens of groups, often mixing klezmer with jazz or rock, gaining large followings throughout the world.
This Is Reggae Music by Lloyd Bradley
Call Number: ML3532 .B73 2000
ISBN: 0802138284
Publication Date: 2001-09-24
Jamaica is a small country in the Caribbean, 146 miles wide and populated by fewer than three million people. Nevertheless, it has exerted a more powerful hold on international popular music than any nation besides England and America. From Prince Buster to Burning Spear, Lee "Scratch" Perry to Yellowman, Bob Marley to Shabba Ranks, reggae music is one of the most dynamic and powerful musical forms of the twentieth century.
Global Noise by Tony Mitchell (Editor)
Call Number: ML3531 .G56 2001
ISBN: 0819565016
Publication Date: 2002-02-25
International scholars show that hip hop has been adapted to a diversity of local linguistic & cultural scenes while retaining a consistent rhetoric of opposition & resistance to institutionalized oppression.
Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea by Michael Fuhr
ISBN: 1317556909
Publication Date: 2015-06-12
This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around the field of Korean pop music since the 1990s, which paved the way for the recent international rise of K-Pop and the Korean Wave. Fuhr examines the conditions and effects of transnational flows, asymmetrical power relations, and the role of the imaginary "other" in K-Pop production and consumption, relating them to the specific aesthetic dimensions and material conditions of K-Pop stars, songs, and videos.