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Brought to Life by the Voice - Amanda Weidman

Brought to Life by the Voice

Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
270 Seiten
2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37706-6 (ISBN)
CHF 51,90 inkl. MwSt
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To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become revered celebrities in their own right. Brought to Life by the Voice explores the distinctive aesthetics and affective power generated by this division of labor between onscreen body and offscreen voice in South Indian Tamil cinema. In Amanda Weidman's historical and ethnographic account, playback is not just a cinematic technique, but a powerful and ubiquitous element of aural public culture that has shaped the complex dynamics of postcolonial gendered subjectivity, politicized ethnolinguistic identity, and neoliberal transformation in South India.

Amanda Weidman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College and the author of Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie South Asia Across the Disciplines
Zusatzinfo 16 b-w illustrations, 1 table, 4 a-v clips
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-37706-0 / 0520377060
ISBN-13 978-0-520-37706-6 / 9780520377066
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