Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios

Behind the Curtain examines the musicians who were composers, arrangers, assistants and studio performers in the Bollywood studios from the 1930s until the present. It offers a musical, technological, industrial, and social history of India's hegemonic popular music industry from the perspectives of the musicians and others who experienced it. It is one of the few oral histories in ethnomusicology, and offers the first ground level view of this globallyimportant music industry.