Is It All About Hips? (Around The World With Bollywood Dance)

Contents Foreword xi Preface xiii 1. Introduction 1 Live Bollywood Dance 3 Hindi Film Travels 6 Traveling with Bollywood Dance 9 2. Dancing through the Decades: A Bit of Theory and History 12 Song-and-Dance Connection 17 Hindi Film Dance Histories 22 3. Bombay and the Bodies of Bollywood Dance 34 Entering SDIPA 36 Between India and the World 40 Mediated Bodies of Bollywood Dance 44 On Bombay's Film Sets 51 New Bodies for a New India? 55 Training Bodies at SDIPA 62 Back on Set and New Exotic Bodies of Bollywood Dance 64 4. Under Bollywood's Big Umbrella? Bollywood Dance in Kathmandu 71 Filmi Dance in Nepal: Modernity and Nationalism 73 Bombay Disease and Bollywood Dance 81 New Filmi Dance Professionals? 85 Kathmandu's Dance Bars 90 Sexualized Dances of the Badi in Western Nepal 95 Legacies of Dance 98 Sexualized National Dimensions of Bollywood Dance 101 5. More Indian than India? Bollywood Dance in Los Angeles 105 The Indian Diaspora and Bollywood Dance 108 Authentic India? Indian Classical Dance in the United States 111 Bollywood Dance as Indian Dance 115 Imagining India through Bollywood Dance 117 Hybrid Identities of Bollywood Dance 120 Spectacularizing India 123 Internalized Censorship 125 Conflicted Hierarchies 128 Hollywood's Bollywood: Between Kitsch and Orientalism 131 Kitsch, Orientalism, and Bollywood Dance in Vanity Fair 136 Bollywood Dance in MTV's Next in Los Angeles 138 Revising So You Think You Can Dance? 141 6. Conclusion 143 So What Was behind the Blouse? 152 The Final Dance 159 Appendix 1: Personal Narrative: Bombay Story 163 Appendix 2: Personal Narrative: Kathmandu Story 167 Appendix 3: Personal Narrative: Los Angeles Story 170 Appendix 4: Personal Narrative: Author's Story 173 Notes 175 Selected Films Cited 209 Glossary 213 Index 217 About the Author 224