Pop Culture India!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle

by Asha Kasbekar Ph.D.

Overview

The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume.

Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turbans in recent history.

How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851096367
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/24/2006
Series:	Popular Culture in the Contemporary World
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Asha Kasbekar is a freelance jourbanalist specializing in popular culture. She has worked at the British Board of Film Classification, taught Indian cinema at the University of London, and published papers on Bollywood films.