Introduction: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance
Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti
PART I. HOME TERRAINS
1. Tapping the Mass Market: The Commercial Life of Hindi Film Songs
Anna Morcom
2. The Sounds of Modernity: The Evolution of Bollywood Film Song
Biswarup Sen
3. From Bombay to Bollywood: Tracking Cinematic Musical Tours
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Monika Mehta
4. Bollwood and Beyond: The Transnational Economy of Film Production in
Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad
Shanti Kumar
5. The Music of Intolerable Love: Political Conjugality in Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se
Anustup Basu
PART II. ECCENTRIC ORBITS
6. Intimate Neighbours: Bolllywood, Dangdut Music, and Globalising Modernities
in Indonesia
Bettina David
7. The Ubiquitous Nonpresence of India: Peripheral Visions from
Egyptian Popular Culture
Walter Armbrust
8. Appropriating the Uncodable: Hindi Song and dance Sequences in
Israeli State Promotional Commercials
Ronnie Parciack
PART III. PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS
9. Dancing to an Indian Beat: “Dola” Goes My Diasporic Heart
Sangita Shresthova
10. Food and Cassettes: Encounters with Indian Filmsong
Edward K. Chan
11. Queer as Desis: Secret Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Bollywood Films
in Diasporic Urban Ethnoscapes
Rajinder Dudrah
12. Bollwood Gets Funky: American Hip-Hop, Basement Bhangra, and
the Racial Politics of Music
Richard Zumkhawala
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Index