Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tapping the mass market : the commercial life of Hindi film songs / Anna Morcom -- The sounds of modernity : the evolution of Bollywood film song / Biswarup Sen -- From Bombay to Bollywood : tracking cinematic and musical tours / Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Monika Mehta -- Bollywood and beyond : the transnational economy of film production in Ramoji film city, Hyderbad / Shanti Kumar -- The music of intolerable love : political conjugality in Mani Ratnam’s Dil se / Anustup Basu -- Intimate neighbors : Bollywood, dangdut music, and globalizing modernities in Indonesia / Bettina David -- The ubiquitous nonpresence of India : peripheral visions from Egyptian popular culture / Walter Armbrust -- Appropriating the uncodable : Hindi song and dance sequences in Israeli state promotional commercials / Ronie Parciack -- Dancing to an Indian beat : "Dola" goes my diasporic heart / Sangita Shresthova -- Food and cassettes : encounters with Indian filmsong / Edward K. Chan -- Queer as desis : secret politics of gender and sexuality in Bollywood films in diasporic urban ethnoscapes / Rajinder Dudrah -- Bollywood gets funky : American hip-hop, basement bhangra, and the racial politics of music / Richard Zumkhawala-Cook.