Foreword by Thomas Christensen
Introduction by Tejaswini Niranjana
Part I: Music and Modernity
1. Musical Publics in Twentieth-Century Madras: Competing Narratives of Sonic Sociability by Lakshmi Subramanian
2. The Ustads from the North, the Public Sphere, and the Classicization of Music in Late Nineteenth-Century Calcutta by Adrian McNeil
3. Hindustani Music and the Emergence of a Lingua Musica in Mumbai by Tejaswini Niranjana
Part II: New Musical Publics and the Formation of Taste
4. Govind Sadashiv Tembe and the Education of Taste in Maharashtra by Urmila Bhirdikar
5. Artists in the Open: Indian Classical Musicians in the Mid-Twentieth Century by Amlan Das Gupta
Part III: Inter-medial Publics
6. Seeing Print, Hearing Song: Tracking the Film Song Through the Hindi Popular Print Sphere, c. 1955-75 by Vebhuti Duggal
7. Rewind and Play: Nineties Romantic Music in the Cinematic Public Sphere by Abhija Ghosh
8. The Public Sphere of Marketed Sound: The Business of Early Recorded Music in India by Vibodh Parthasarathi
Part IV: Music and Popular Politics
9. Singing in the Fray: Radical Publics and Popular Entertainment in South India by Kaley Mason
10. Vernacular Music Traditions and Their Publics: The Political Dimensions of Sounds and Technologies by Aditi Deo
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Contributors