MU 233 - From Bombay to Bollywood:Music and the Popular Indian

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Colorado College

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Examines how film music has helped define the global industry now known as "Bollywood." Also examines how film song sequences, hallmarks of Indian popular cinema, work within and outside films' narratives to create a unique aesthetic. Course surveys both old and recent popular Bombay films. It explores elements of songs within the film including stylistic conventions, context within films, and their life outside the cinema hall. Block 7: From Bombay to Bollywood: Music and the Popular Indian Film. Since the 1930s, the presence of the film song sequence has been a hallmark of Indian popular cinema, to the extent that film song sequences and songs often play an important role in helping promote the films they appear in. This course examines how film music has helped define Bombay cinema as the global industry now known as "Bollywood", as well as how film song sequences work within and outside films' narratives to create a unique aesthetic. Although international audiences have enjoyed Bombay films and film music since the 1950s, the term "Bollywood" did not emerge until the late 1980s. Since then, it has often accompanied descriptions of Bombay films' transformation from a regional industry into a multimedia global brand- experienced through cinema; the Internet; satellite television; music and video recordings; radio; and ring tones, almost all of which feature music at their core. This viewing-intensive course surveys older as well as recent popular Bombay films and explores their film songs' stylistic conventions, context within films, and their life outside the cinema hall. In doing so, students trace the shift from Bombay to "Bollywood" as well as gain a fundamental understanding of South Asian popular culture. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Anthropology 222 and Asian Studies 223.) 1 unit - Bhattacharjya.

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1.00

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Institution Website:

www.coloradocollege.edu

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(719) 389-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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