Music is the organization of sounds with some degree of rhythm, melody, and harmony. Popular Music is music produced for and sold to a broad audience. Indian popular music, which is most strongly influenced by Indian folk music, is shaped by social, economic, and technological forces. Popular music is closely linked to the social identity of its performers and audiences.
Indian Popular Music has one of the world's most extensive popular music industries. Most Indian popular music is associated with the commercial film industry, centred on Mumbai, in which song-and-dance scenes are inserted into, plots. Film songs are heard all over India, in city streets and even in remote villages, and have also become one of the country's major cultural exports. It is a remarkably eclectic genre, borrowing freely from other Indian music us and popular music's from around the world, including some Western harmonic procedures.
Both Indian cinema and
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