Manuel, Peter

Cassette culture: popular music and technology in North India/ Peter Manuel - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. - xix, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - (Chicago studies in ethnomusicology) .

1. Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives--

2. The Impact of Cassettes on the International Recording Industry--

3. The Music Industry and Film Culture up to 1975--

4. The Advent of Cassettes: New Alternatives to His Master's Voice--

5. Cassettes and the Modern Ghazal--

6. Devotional Music--

7. The Politics of Parody: Tune-Borrowing in Popular and Folk Music--

8. Regional Musics--

9. Rasiya: A Case Study in Commercialization--

10. Cassettes and Sociopolitical Movements--

11. Conclusions: A Micro-Medium in Macro-Perspective--
Notes--
Glossary of Indian-Language Terms--
Bibliography--
Some Recent Parodies in Film Music--
Index.

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Music--Social aspects
Sound recording industry
Audiotapes
Mass media and music

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