ISBN:
9781580465489
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 242 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Eastman studies in music v. 131
Series Statement:
Eastman studies in music
DDC:
781.640973/0954
Keywords:
Popular music History and criticism
;
Popular music History and criticism
;
Popular music American influences
;
African American musicians
;
Popmusik
;
Musiker
;
Schwarze
;
Afroamerikanische Musik
;
Unterhaltungsmusik
;
Indien
;
USA
;
Britisch-Indien
;
USA
;
USA
;
Unterhaltungsmusik
;
Britisch-Indien
;
USA
;
Popmusik
;
Afroamerikanische Musik
;
Britisch-Indien
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Musiker
;
Britisch-Indien
Abstract:
"American Popular Music in Britain's Raj" is the first systematic study of the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, it examines blackface minstrel shows, ragtime, jazz, and representations of Hollywood film music in Bombay cabarets and Hindi film songs, identifying key musical moments in the development of these styles between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The book describes the entertainment idioms and frameworks that supported the growth of these imported styles; further, it surveys a variety of historical contexts under colonialism that influenced their meaning and commercial value. Focusing on Calcutta (modern Kolkata), Lucknow, and Bombay (modern Mumbai), Bradley Shope traces the movement of this music between the United States, England, and India, and addresses a variety of groups and communities, including the US military in Calcutta during World War II, Anglo-Indians in Lucknow in the 1930s and 1940s, and British residents across North India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. - Bradley G. Shope is assistant professor of music at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. (Klappentext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures. - Acknowledgments. - Introduction. - 1 Entertainment Globalization, 1850s to 1910s. - 2 Technologies, Exoticism, and Entrepreneurs, 1920s and 1930s. - 3 Calcutta in the War. - 4 The Case of Lucknow. - 5 Cabaret Sequences in Hindi Films. - Afterword. - Notes. - Bibliography. - Filmography and Discography. - Index
Note:
Series numbering from CIP data. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227), filmography (pages 229-230), discography (page 230) and index
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