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Popular Music in India: 1901–86

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Peter Manuel
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The dramatic development of popular music in India illustrates some of the complex and varied ways that South Asians have used art and entertainment as a means of adapting and relating to the social transitions accompanying modernisation. Indian popular music, nevertheless, has been all but ignored in scholarly literature, whether musicological or sociological; this article endeavours to provide a basis for future inquiries by providing a descriptive outline of the development of modern Indian commercial music in the twentieth century.

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Research Article
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Popular Music , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , May 1988 , pp. 157 - 176
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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