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Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone, and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema

The Journal of Asian studies, 2007-02, Vol.66 (1), p.3-34 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 ;Copyright 2007 Association of Asian Studies Inc. ;2008 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Cambridge University Press, Publishing Division Feb 2007 ;ISSN: 0021-9118 ;ISSN: 1752-0401 ;EISSN: 1752-0401 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0021911807000034 ;CODEN: JASNBR

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Title:
Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone, and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema
Author: Hughes, Stephen Putnam
Subjects: 19th century ; 20th century ; Art history ; Business ; Cinema ; Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore ; commodification ; Cultural history ; Culture ; Drama ; dramatic arts ; Entertainment industry ; Ethnology ; Film music ; India ; Karnatak music ; Live performance ; mass culture ; Media ; Motion picture industry ; Motion pictures ; Movies ; Music ; Music industry ; Musical performance ; Musical performances ; Musical recordings ; Musical register ; Musicians & conductors ; Performances, theater, carnival ; Phonographs ; Popular culture ; Popular music ; Recording industry ; Singers ; song ; sound recording technology ; Tamil language ; Tamil Modern ; Theater ; Vocal music
Is Part Of: The Journal of Asian studies, 2007-02, Vol.66 (1), p.3-34
Description: During the first half of the twentieth century, new mass media practices radically altered traditional cultural forms and performance in a complex encounter that incited much debate, criticism, and celebration the world over. This essay examines how the new sound media of gramophone and sound cinema took up the live performance genres of Tamil drama. Professor Hughes argues that south Indian music recording companies and their products prefigured, mediated, and transcended the musical relationship between stage drama and Tamil cinema. The music recording industry not only transformed Tamil drama music into a commodity for mass circulation before the advent of talkies but also mediated the musical relationship between Tamil drama and cinema, helped to create film songs as a new and distinct popular music genre, and produced a new mass culture of film songs.
Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0021-9118
ISSN: 1752-0401
EISSN: 1752-0401
DOI: 10.1017/S0021911807000034
CODEN: JASNBR
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
ProQuest Central

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Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone, and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema

Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 ;Copyright 2007 Association of Asian Studies Inc. ;2008 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Cambridge University Press, Publishing Division Feb 2007 ;ISSN: 0021-9118 ;ISSN: 1752-0401 ;EISSN: 1752-0401 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0021911807000034 ;CODEN: JASNBR

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