Ajay Gehlawat is the author of several studies of popular Hindi cinema, including Twenty-First Century Bollywood (Routledge, 2015). He is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Film at Sonoma State University, CA, USA. Rajinder Dudrah has authored numerous studies of Indian cinema and is the editor of the South Asian Popular Culture journal. He is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries at Birmingham City University, UK.

• Introduction: The evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema Part I: Early Developments in Song and Dance 1. Synchronicity and continuity of sound and image in early Indian cinema 2. Two dances and a conference 3. Dance Musicalization: Proposing a choreomusicological approach to Hindi film song-and-dance sequences Part II: Contemporary Transformations 4. Romance, piety, and fun: The transformation of qawwali and Islamicate culture in Hindi cinema 5. A.R. Rahman and the aesthetic transformation of Indian film scores 6. Bollywood’s variation on the firanginess theme: Song-and-dance sequences as heterotopic offbeats 7. Kehte Hain Humko Pyar Se Indiawaale: Shaping a contemporary diasporic Indianness in and through the Bollywood Song 8. The picture is not yet over!: The end credits song sequence in Bollywood

Ajay Gehlawat is the author of several studies of popular Hindi cinema, including Twenty-First Century Bollywood (Routledge, 2015). He is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Film at Sonoma State University, CA, USA. Rajinder Dudrah has authored numerous studies of Indian cinema and is the editor of the South Asian Popular Culture journal. He is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries at Birmingham City University, UK.

• Introduction: The evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema Part I: Early Developments in Song and Dance 1. Synchronicity and continuity of sound and image in early Indian cinema 2. Two dances and a conference 3. Dance Musicalization: Proposing a choreomusicological approach to Hindi film song-and-dance sequences Part II: Contemporary Transformations 4. Romance, piety, and fun: The transformation of qawwali and Islamicate culture in Hindi cinema 5. A.R. Rahman and the aesthetic transformation of Indian film scores 6. Bollywood’s variation on the firanginess theme: Song-and-dance sequences as heterotopic offbeats 7. Kehte Hain Humko Pyar Se Indiawaale: Shaping a contemporary diasporic Indianness in and through the Bollywood Song 8. The picture is not yet over!: The end credits song sequence in Bollywood