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Book Title: Hindi Film Songs And The Cinema
Number of Pages: 306 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: History & Criticism, Film / General, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Ethnomusicology, Ethnic
Item Height: 0.7 in
Features: New Edition
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Music, Performing Arts
Author: Anna Morcom
Item Length: 9.2 in
Series: Soas Studies in Music Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
