Pop culture India! media, arts, and lifestyle
Title:
Pop culture India! media, arts, and lifestyle
Author:
Kasbekar, Asha.
ISBN:
9781849723862
9781851096411
9781851096367
9781280712197
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Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 336 p.) : ill.
Series:
Popular culture in the contemporary world
Popular culture in the contemporary world.
General Note:
Includes graphical cross-reference mapper.
Contents:
Introduction -- Music -- Theater -- Indian literature in English -- Print media in India -- newspapers and magazines -- Radio -- Television -- Cinema -- Cricket -- Consumer culture -- Conclusion.
Abstract:
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 turns in recent history.
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