Introduction: Western popular music and Indian modernity
Biswarup Sen
1. The bi-musical subject: Dwarkanath Tagore and European music in early-nineteenth century Calcutta
Sharmadip Basu
2. Rhythm, noise and action: Decoding R.D. Burman’s soundtracks of Bombay
Shikha Jhingan
3. The Beatles, the bands, and Bollywood: dialectical identities of India’s popular music
Natalie Sarrazin
4. Beatlemania in Bombay
Peter Kvetko
5. Contextualizing the voice of a female pop artist: Western music and Indian modernity
Swapna Gopinath and Sagar Krishna
6. ‘All Divine’: Mapping the intersections between spirituality and modernity in independent Indian music
Tina Mohandas
7. Broadcasting the popular: All India Radio’s western music programming in the postcolonial era
Biswarup Sen
8. ‘If Madonna can…’: emergence of the female indipop star in the 1990s MTV cultural economy
Ridima Sharma
9. Rocking in Kasba: “band” music, contemporary Bengali cinema, and Anjan Dutta’s lost Kolkata
Meheli Sen
10. Sounding against culture? The tenors of western music in a colonial small town
Ratheesh Kumar
11. ‘A distant echo attracts me, fragrance of life beyond’: growing up a metalhead in India
Debarun Sarkar
Biography
Biswarup Sen is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, where he has taught since 2004. His research focuses on mass communications, globalization, new media, and popular culture. He is the author of Digital Culture and Politics in Contemporary India: The Making of an Info-Nation (2016) and Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India (co-editor, 2014) and is currently working on a manuscript titled Cliff Richard and Anglo-India.
