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Voicing Aspiration: Bollywood Songs and Dreamwork in Contemporary India

Voicing Aspiration: Bollywood Songs and Dreamwork in Contemporary India

Cornell University Department of Music

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In this talk, I explore how Bollywood songs have become a powerful medium for dreaming, striving, and self-making in twenty-first-century India. Once dismissed as escapist fantasy, Bollywood’s emotionally charged songs now serve as tools for self-transformation in what has been dubbed “Aspirational India.” Drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in Mumbai, I trace how upcoming singers, amateur students, teachers, and Bollywood producers use B...

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Cornell University Department of Music

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