ABSTRACT
Jayson Beaster-Jones is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Music Commodities, Markets, and Values: Music as Merchandise (Routledge, 2016). His work examines the music industry as a site of cultural production in contemporary India, focusing in particular upon the kinds of economic and social values that are produced as music is sold, as well as the meanings that accompany music commodities in retail contexts.
