Series: 33 1/3 South Asia

The 2001 buddy film Dil Chahta Hai (dir. Farhan Akhtar), had arguably the first rock soundtrack in Bollywood. The award-winning soundtrack is an entry point into the relationship between Bollywood film songs, Hindi-language music, and the Indi-pop movement of the '80s and '90s. Beaster-Jones draws from reviews by music critics and fans, industry interviews, and his own close analysis of...

This book reviews the 13 songs of Coke Studio's 14th season and highlights how those innovations resulted in a successful reboot of the show. In a country fraught with political instability and violence, the television show Coke Studio serves as a beacon of hope and progress in Pakistan. For over a decade, its music has acted as a medium for...

A history of Hindi film music recounted from a list of 50 of Lata Mangeshkar's songs that she chose as her favourites. Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's all-time most influential singers, was known as "the Nightingale of India." For her album My Favourites, Vol. 2, Lata chooses 50 songs as her favourites among her own work, from a repository of...