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  • Publisher:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Publication date:
    15 February 2018
    30 January 2016
    ISBN:
    9781782046936
    9781580465489
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    • Series:
    Eastman Studies in Music
    Subjects:
    Music, Music: General Interest
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    Series:
    Eastman Studies in Music
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    Music, Music: General Interest
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    American Popular Music in Britain's Raj is the first systematic study to address the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, it examines blackface minstrel shows, ragtime, jazz, and representations of Hollywood film music in Bombay cabarets and Hindi film songs, identifying key musical moments in the development of these styles between the middle 1800s and the middle 1900s, outlining the entertainment idioms and frameworks that supported their growth, and examining a variety of historical contexts under colonialism that influenced their meaning and commercial value.
    Focusing on Calcutta (modern Kolkata), Lucknow, and Bombay (modern Mumbai), Bradley Shope traces the movement of music across time and space -- including between the United States, England, and India -- and addresses a variety of groups and communities, including the US military in Calcutta during World War II, Anglo-Indians in Lucknow in the 1930s and 1940s, and British residents across North India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    Bradley G. Shope is assistant professor of music at Texas A & M-Corpus Christi.

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