| Preface | |
| Motivations and Predispositions | |
| Scope and Orientation Methodology | |
| Transliteration | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives Cassettes and the New Media | |
| Technologies Cassette Technology and the "Democratic-Participant" Media | |
| Theoretical Approaches: Ethnomusicology and Media Theory | |
| Control of the Media Media Content Reception Theory | |
| Effects and Audience Interpretations of Media Content Base and Superstructure in an Integrated Cultural Materialism | |
| Conclusions | |
| The Impact of Cassettes on the International Recording Industry | |
| Contrasting Patterns of Development | |
| The International Impact of Cassette | |
| Technology Cassette Piracy | |
| The Emergence of Legitimate Cassette Industries | |
| The Music Industry and Film Culture up to 1975 | |
| The Growth of the Indian Record Industry | |
| Radio Film Music and Film Culture Film Music: Context and Content | |
| The Impact of Film Music on Folk Music | |
| Conclusions | |
| The Advent of Cassettes: New Alternatives to His Master's Voice Cassettes come to India | |
| Cassette Producers Financial and Technological Aspects of the Cassette | |
| Industry Promotion and Publicity Music-Industry Organizations | |
| Piracy Compact Discs | |
| Cassettes and the Modern Ghazal | |
| The Traditional Ghazal | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Film Ghazal | |
| The Modern Ghazal "Pop" Goes the Ghazal | |
| Conclusions | |
| Devotional Music Music and Bhaktiin Hindu Culture | |
| Devotional Music and the Mass Media Ghazal, Cassettes, and the Emergence of the Pop Bhajan | |
| The Mainstream Pop Bhajan | |
| Aesthetics, Ethos, and Commercialism "Great" and "Little Traditions" in Commercial Devotional Music | |
| Production and Marketing of Devotional Music | |
| Muslim Devotional Music Cassettes and Live Performance | |
| Conclusions | |
| The Politics of Parody | |
| Tune-Borrowing in Popular and Folk Music Parody in Hindustani Music | |
| Parody in Folk Music | |
| "Versions" | |
| Recycling the Classics Copyright Conclusions | |
| Regional Musics Social Identity and Regional Syncretic | |
| Musics Cassettes and Diversification: Region, Language, and Genre Cassettes and Class Expression Gender | |
| The Impact of Commodification Song Texts in Regional Cassette-Based Music | |
| Cassettes and Lewd Regional Songs Cassettes and Live Performance | |
| Regional Cassette Musics | |
| Conclusions | |
| Rasiya: A Case Study in Commercialization Braj Culture and Rasiya Song Texts in Secular Folk | |
| Rasiya Gender Representation in Rasiya Rasiya and Socio economic Modernization | |
| Rasiya and Mass Culture Film Parodies and Hathrasi Rasiya | |
| The Advent of Cassettes Cassettes and the "Little Tradition" of Rasiya Bhakti | |
| Secular Rasiya Cassettes Song Texts in Commercial | |
| Rasiya Disparaging Perspectives | |
| Rasiya Producer Singer-Poet Sevaram "Tanatan" Sharma | |
| Conclusions | |
| Cassettes and Sociopolitical Movements Jagori | |
| Cassettes and Women's Liberation Regional Movements in Eastern Bihar | |
| Cassettes and the 1989 Elections Regional and Sectarian Movements | |
| Cassettes and the Contemporary Hindu-Muslim Conflict | |
| 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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