Foreword / by Thomas Christensen
Introduction / Tejaswini Niranjana
part I. Music and modernity
1. Musical publics in twentieth-century Madras: competing narratives of sonic sociability / Lakshmi Subramanian
2. The ustads from the North, the public sphere, and the classicization of music in late nineteeenth-century Calcutta / Adrian McNeil
3. Hindustani music and the emergence of a lingua musica in Mumbai / Tejaswini Niranjana
part II. New musical publics and the formation of taste
4. Govind Sadashiv Tembe and the education of taste in Maharashtra / Urmila Bhirdikar
5. Artists in the open: Indian classical musicians in the mid-twentieth century / 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 / Vebhuti Duggal
7. Rewind and play: romantic music of the 1990s in the cinematic public sphere / Abhija Ghosh
8. The public sphere of marketed sound: the business of early recorded music in India / Vibodh Parthasarathi
part IV. Music and popular politics
9. Singing in the fray: radical publics and popular entertainment in South India / Kaley Mason
10. Vernacular music traditions and their publics: the political dimensions of sounds and technologies / Aditi Deo
Bibliography
About the editor and contributors
Index.