Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance

by Sangita Gopal

Book Overview

Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western films such as Vanity Fair and Moulin Rouge.

Global Bollywood shows how this currency in popular culture and among diasporic communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645795
• ISBN13: 9780816645794
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"