Gregory D Booth
Biographic Data
| ID | 181521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory D Booth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory D |
| FAMILY NAME | Booth |
| SIGNATURE | BOOTH G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2886-2791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Synchronicity and continuity of sound and image in early Indian cinema
This study examines a small sample of song scenes from Indian films produced between 1931 and 1935. It considers the impact of the technological constraints imposed by the absence of post-production technology for sound editing and for sound-image synchronization. That impact included the common practice of simultaneous sound and image recording (to ensure synchronization of sound and image) and of filming song scenes in single takes (to ensure m…
A Long Tail in the Digital Age: Music Commerce and the Mobile Platform in India
This article examines human agency, technological change, the market economy, and industrial structure and practice through a case study of one of India’s oldest existing music companies and its historically and regionally distinctive catalogue. I consider the cultural and industrial results of changes in technology and government policy that forced Hindusthan/INRECO into tactical business decisions that positioned the company to take advantage o…
Copyright Law and the Changing Economic Value of Popular Music in India
Using archival and ethnographic data, this study examines Indian understandings of music as intellectual property, as expressed in industrial logic and practice, in industrial, legal and public discourse and through the content of, and approaches to, the Indian Copyright Act. Those understandings were powerfully influenced by changing technology, market dynamics, and Indian relations with the world economy (after 1984). Collectively, these phenom…
Preliminary thoughts on Hindi popular music and film production: India's ‘culture industry(ies)’, 1970–2000
The unique nature of the relationship between popular film and music production in India has defined the nature of popular music as an industry and as a cultural commodity from 1931. This relationship solidified during the first roughly 25 years of Indian independence in response to specific industrial, regulatory, and cultural conditions; but as those conditions began to shift after 1970, the relationship became increasingly fluid. This study of…
Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance (review)
The Laya Project
The Laya Project Executive Producer Sastry Karra, Music Producer Patrick Sebag, Film Director Harold Monfils (Boo Films, Malaysia), Writer and Content Sonya Mazumdar Chennai, EarthSync India, 2006
Religion, gossip, narrative conventions and the construction of meaning in Hindi film songs
IntroductionThe commercial Hindi language cinema is among the largest and oldest music film traditions on the planet. One of the most widely remarked and inflexible conventions of this highly stylised popular film genre is the regular appearance of song and dance scenes in almost every commercial Hindi film. A huge body of over 40,000 film songs (filmī gīt, as they are known in Hindi) has grown along with the thousands of Hindi sound films produc…
Inde [India]. Tabla Solo. Hommage a Latif Ahmed Khan [A Tribute to Latif Ahmed Khan]
Socio-Musical Mobility among South Asian Clarinet Players
La clarinette est aujourd'hui l'instrument etranger le plus diffuse depuis le XIX e siecle dans les musiques de l'Asie du Sud (Inde et Pakistan) et le plus indigenise. L'histoire de cet instrument de musique est transmise par de rares documents ecrits et enregistrements sonores. L'A. montre que la clarinette, introduite pendant la periode coloniale britannique, est longtemps restee un symbole negatif du colonialisme et de l'impurete corporelle se…
The Madras Corporation Band: A Story of Social Change and Indigenization
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Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema
The commercial Hindi cinema has been subjected to foreign and domestic criticism for its exceptionally formulaic and stereotypical features. These features, however, have their sources in the oral and written epics and from the popular dramatic genres of traditional Indian culture. From the devotional ritual (mangalacharan) that frames the beginning of many films, to the conclusions that reflect socially acceptable resolutions based on traditiona…
"SamulNori - "Record of Changes
Sangitasiromani: A Medieval Handbook of Indian Music
The Sangitasiroman i, Crest-jewel of Music, is a major Sanskrit work on Indian musicology, composed in 1428 A.D. by scholars from all parts of India who participated in a musicological congress organized by Sultan Malika Sahi at Kad a (near Allahabad). Designed as a standard text-book on music the work summarizes and explains the opinions of older and contemporary authors. It deals with all the aspects of traditional Indian musicology, such as to…
Shobha Gurtu
The Applicability of Verbal Processing Strategies to Recall of Familiar Songs
One hundred thirty-five undergraduate nonmusic majors participated in a free-recall task in which they were asked to remember the titles of 12 songs that they heard in different sequences. The investigators were seeking evidence that cognitive categorization of the titles was based on the musical element of style. The purpose was to compare the subjects development of any apparent categorization of the musical stimuli with categorization strategi…
"Disco "Laggi: Modern Repertoire and Traditional Performance Practice in North Indian Popular Music
The working title of this paper, Disco Laggi, represents the juxtaposition of two Indian musical phenomena whose origins and normal usages are mutually exclusive. The term is used in Indian to identify any music that borrows directly from western pop, especially (but not exclusively) the steady four-beat rhythm of American disco. Lagg7 is the designation for a specific style of solo drumming that is performed by tabla (as well as dholak and nagga…
Flutes of Rajasthan
Jugal Bandhi: A Benefit Program for the Sri Meenakshi Temple
Brass Bands: Tradition, Change, and the Mass Media in Indian Wedding Music
A distinctive feature of most Indian weddings is the barCt, the procession from the groom's house to the home of the bride. This procession is frequently accompanied by lights, fireworks, music, and dance. In urban India, the most common musical accompaniment for the barat is the brass band.1 For ethnomusicologists, these multicultural ensembles pose a number of intriguing questions that are both specific to the Indian band world and relevant to …
The Effect of Melodic Activity, Tempo Change, and Audible Beat on Tempo Perception of Elementary School Students
This two-part study was designed to investigate the influence of melodic activity (ornamented and plain) on the perception of tempo. Additional variables were an audible beat (present or absent) in Experiment 1 and the size of the tempo change (92 and 118 beats per minute) in Experiment 2. Subjects, 46 third graders and 49 sixth graders (Experiment 1) and 47 fifth graders (Experiment 2), indicated whether the tempo of the second example in each p…
The New Harvard Dictionary of Music
A Discography of Hindustani and Karnatic Music
This exhaustive and complete discography of Indian music issued on microgroove discs and cassettes provides information on over 2,700 recordings of classical and semiclassical music of the Indian subcontinent. It covers the period from the early 1950s to the end of 1983 and also contains information on recordings from the early 1930s onward that were originally issued at 78 RPM and have been reissued on microgroove discs. The main text of the dis…
Religion, gossip, narrative conventions and the construction of meaning in Hindi film songs
IntroductionThe commercial Hindi language cinema is among the largest and oldest music film traditions on the planet. One of the most widely remarked and inflexible conventions of this highly stylised popular film genre is the regular appearance of song and dance scenes in almost every commercial Hindi film. A huge body of over 40,000 film songs (filmī gīt, as they are known in Hindi) has grown along with the thousands of Hindi sound films produc…
Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema
The commercial Hindi cinema has been subjected to foreign and domestic criticism for its exceptionally formulaic and stereotypical features. These features, however, have their sources in the oral and written epics and from the popular dramatic genres of traditional Indian culture. From the devotional ritual (mangalacharan) that frames the beginning of many films, to the conclusions that reflect socially acceptable resolutions based on traditiona…
The Effect of Melodic Activity, Tempo Change, and Audible Beat on Tempo Perception of Elementary School Students
This two-part study was designed to investigate the influence of melodic activity (ornamented and plain) on the perception of tempo. Additional variables were an audible beat (present or absent) in Experiment 1 and the size of the tempo change (92 and 118 beats per minute) in Experiment 2. Subjects, 46 third graders and 49 sixth graders (Experiment 1) and 47 fifth graders (Experiment 2), indicated whether the tempo of the second example in each p…
Preliminary thoughts on Hindi popular music and film production: India's ‘culture industry(ies)’, 1970–2000
The unique nature of the relationship between popular film and music production in India has defined the nature of popular music as an industry and as a cultural commodity from 1931. This relationship solidified during the first roughly 25 years of Indian independence in response to specific industrial, regulatory, and cultural conditions; but as those conditions began to shift after 1970, the relationship became increasingly fluid. This study of…
Socio-Musical Mobility among South Asian Clarinet Players
La clarinette est aujourd'hui l'instrument etranger le plus diffuse depuis le XIX e siecle dans les musiques de l'Asie du Sud (Inde et Pakistan) et le plus indigenise. L'histoire de cet instrument de musique est transmise par de rares documents ecrits et enregistrements sonores. L'A. montre que la clarinette, introduite pendant la periode coloniale britannique, est longtemps restee un symbole negatif du colonialisme et de l'impurete corporelle se…
The Applicability of Verbal Processing Strategies to Recall of Familiar Songs
One hundred thirty-five undergraduate nonmusic majors participated in a free-recall task in which they were asked to remember the titles of 12 songs that they heard in different sequences. The investigators were seeking evidence that cognitive categorization of the titles was based on the musical element of style. The purpose was to compare the subjects development of any apparent categorization of the musical stimuli with categorization strategi…
Brass Bands: Tradition, Change, and the Mass Media in Indian Wedding Music
A distinctive feature of most Indian weddings is the barCt, the procession from the groom's house to the home of the bride. This procession is frequently accompanied by lights, fireworks, music, and dance. In urban India, the most common musical accompaniment for the barat is the brass band.1 For ethnomusicologists, these multicultural ensembles pose a number of intriguing questions that are both specific to the Indian band world and relevant to …
A Discography of Hindustani and Karnatic Music
This exhaustive and complete discography of Indian music issued on microgroove discs and cassettes provides information on over 2,700 recordings of classical and semiclassical music of the Indian subcontinent. It covers the period from the early 1950s to the end of 1983 and also contains information on recordings from the early 1930s onward that were originally issued at 78 RPM and have been reissued on microgroove discs. The main text of the dis…
The Effect of Melodic Activity, Tempo Change, and Audible Beat on Tempo Perception of Elementary School Students
This two-part study was designed to investigate the influence of melodic activity (ornamented and plain) on the perception of tempo. Additional variables were an audible beat (present or absent) in Experiment 1 and the size of the tempo change (92 and 118 beats per minute) in Experiment 2. Subjects, 46 third graders and 49 sixth graders (Experiment 1) and 47 fifth graders (Experiment 2), indicated whether the tempo of the second example in each p…
The New Harvard Dictionary of Music
Jugal Bandhi: A Benefit Program for the Sri Meenakshi Temple
Brass Bands: Tradition, Change, and the Mass Media in Indian Wedding Music
A distinctive feature of most Indian weddings is the barCt, the procession from the groom's house to the home of the bride. This procession is frequently accompanied by lights, fireworks, music, and dance. In urban India, the most common musical accompaniment for the barat is the brass band.1 For ethnomusicologists, these multicultural ensembles pose a number of intriguing questions that are both specific to the Indian band world and relevant to …
The Applicability of Verbal Processing Strategies to Recall of Familiar Songs
One hundred thirty-five undergraduate nonmusic majors participated in a free-recall task in which they were asked to remember the titles of 12 songs that they heard in different sequences. The investigators were seeking evidence that cognitive categorization of the titles was based on the musical element of style. The purpose was to compare the subjects development of any apparent categorization of the musical stimuli with categorization strategi…
"Disco "Laggi: Modern Repertoire and Traditional Performance Practice in North Indian Popular Music
The working title of this paper, Disco Laggi, represents the juxtaposition of two Indian musical phenomena whose origins and normal usages are mutually exclusive. The term is used in Indian to identify any music that borrows directly from western pop, especially (but not exclusively) the steady four-beat rhythm of American disco. Lagg7 is the designation for a specific style of solo drumming that is performed by tabla (as well as dholak and nagga…
Flutes of Rajasthan
"SamulNori - "Record of Changes
Sangitasiromani: A Medieval Handbook of Indian Music
The Sangitasiroman i, Crest-jewel of Music, is a major Sanskrit work on Indian musicology, composed in 1428 A.D. by scholars from all parts of India who participated in a musicological congress organized by Sultan Malika Sahi at Kad a (near Allahabad). Designed as a standard text-book on music the work summarizes and explains the opinions of older and contemporary authors. It deals with all the aspects of traditional Indian musicology, such as to…
Shobha Gurtu
Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema
The commercial Hindi cinema has been subjected to foreign and domestic criticism for its exceptionally formulaic and stereotypical features. These features, however, have their sources in the oral and written epics and from the popular dramatic genres of traditional Indian culture. From the devotional ritual (mangalacharan) that frames the beginning of many films, to the conclusions that reflect socially acceptable resolutions based on traditiona…
The Madras Corporation Band: A Story of Social Change and Indigenization
http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1996XF99500003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=6e41486220adb198d0efde5a3b153e7d
Inde [India]. Tabla Solo. Hommage a Latif Ahmed Khan [A Tribute to Latif Ahmed Khan]
Socio-Musical Mobility among South Asian Clarinet Players
La clarinette est aujourd'hui l'instrument etranger le plus diffuse depuis le XIX e siecle dans les musiques de l'Asie du Sud (Inde et Pakistan) et le plus indigenise. L'histoire de cet instrument de musique est transmise par de rares documents ecrits et enregistrements sonores. L'A. montre que la clarinette, introduite pendant la periode coloniale britannique, est longtemps restee un symbole negatif du colonialisme et de l'impurete corporelle se…
Religion, gossip, narrative conventions and the construction of meaning in Hindi film songs
IntroductionThe commercial Hindi language cinema is among the largest and oldest music film traditions on the planet. One of the most widely remarked and inflexible conventions of this highly stylised popular film genre is the regular appearance of song and dance scenes in almost every commercial Hindi film. A huge body of over 40,000 film songs (filmī gīt, as they are known in Hindi) has grown along with the thousands of Hindi sound films produc…
Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance (review)
The Laya Project
The Laya Project Executive Producer Sastry Karra, Music Producer Patrick Sebag, Film Director Harold Monfils (Boo Films, Malaysia), Writer and Content Sonya Mazumdar Chennai, EarthSync India, 2006
Preliminary thoughts on Hindi popular music and film production: India's ‘culture industry(ies)’, 1970–2000
The unique nature of the relationship between popular film and music production in India has defined the nature of popular music as an industry and as a cultural commodity from 1931. This relationship solidified during the first roughly 25 years of Indian independence in response to specific industrial, regulatory, and cultural conditions; but as those conditions began to shift after 1970, the relationship became increasingly fluid. This study of…
Copyright Law and the Changing Economic Value of Popular Music in India
Using archival and ethnographic data, this study examines Indian understandings of music as intellectual property, as expressed in industrial logic and practice, in industrial, legal and public discourse and through the content of, and approaches to, the Indian Copyright Act. Those understandings were powerfully influenced by changing technology, market dynamics, and Indian relations with the world economy (after 1984). Collectively, these phenom…
Synchronicity and continuity of sound and image in early Indian cinema
This study examines a small sample of song scenes from Indian films produced between 1931 and 1935. It considers the impact of the technological constraints imposed by the absence of post-production technology for sound editing and for sound-image synchronization. That impact included the common practice of simultaneous sound and image recording (to ensure synchronization of sound and image) and of filming song scenes in single takes (to ensure m…
A Long Tail in the Digital Age: Music Commerce and the Mobile Platform in India
This article examines human agency, technological change, the market economy, and industrial structure and practice through a case study of one of India’s oldest existing music companies and its historically and regionally distinctive catalogue. I consider the cultural and industrial results of changes in technology and government policy that forced Hindusthan/INRECO into tactical business decisions that positioned the company to take advantage o…
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