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Behind the Curtain examines the musicians who were composers, arrangers, assistants and studio performers in the Bollywood studios from the 1930s until the present. It offers a musical, technological, industrial, and social history of India's hegemonic popular music industry from the perspectives of the musicians and others who experienced it. It is one of the few oral histories in ethnomusicology, and offers the first ground level view of this globallyimportant music industry.

Produktbeschreibung
Behind the Curtain examines the musicians who were composers, arrangers, assistants and studio performers in the Bollywood studios from the 1930s until the present. It offers a musical, technological, industrial, and social history of India's hegemonic popular music industry from the perspectives of the musicians and others who experienced it. It is one of the few oral histories in ethnomusicology, and offers the first ground level view of this globallyimportant music industry.
Autorenporträt
After early training in western classical music, Gregory D. Booth began the study of North Indian tabla drumming with Ustad Zakir Hussain in 1977. He has published widely on South Asian classical music pedagogy, processional music, and Hindi film music. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland.