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This case study of six contemporary musicians and composers working in Mumbai examines modes of entry into the music profession, professional-musical roles and practice, socio-musical-industrial networks, technological infrastructure, and the physical and cultural environment in which these musicians operate. The study is based on ethnographic research and interviews with the subjects and others in Mumbai’s music industry and focuses on the changes to musical work emerging from a globalized, urban and mediated Indian context. Most importantly, this study considers these musicians’ engagement with music production for India’s hegemonic popular culture, the Hindi film industry known as Bollywood.
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Booth, G.D. (2019). Bollywood and the Life of Music in Twenty-First-Century Mumbai. In: Lashua, B., Wagg, S., Spracklen, K., Yavuz, M.S. (eds) Sounds and the City. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94081-6_13
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