bout the Book: Story of A Bollywood Song Evolution of Hindi Film Music Through Stories

The Story of a Hollywood Song traces the evolution of a Hindi film song from the time of silent movies to the era of talkies. Hollywood songs were formed by singing performances of the Parsi Theatre, the Natya Sangeet and by maestros of the Hindustani Classical music. The evolution of a Bollywood song has been depicted in this book through certain incidents and situations during the process of composition. These narrate the contextual background of a song. These stories are illustrative of the gradual as well as simultaneous evolution of Hindi film song as we hear it today. Each milestone in the evolution of a Bollywood song has a story to tell - be it the story of a Jesuit Father, or of the first test recording, or of the mendicant-beggar song, or of a song sung by a princess or a rebel commoner, and so on.