Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India (South Asia Across the Disciplines)
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| Management number | 237139349 | Release Date | 2026/07/10 | List Price | US$4.55 | Model Number | 237139349 | ||
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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. Read more
| ASIN | B096F9CP6G |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-0520976399 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 116.0 MB |
| Page Flip | Not Enabled |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Word Wise | Not Enabled |
| Print length | 270 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Part of series | South Asia Across the Disciplines |
| Publication date | June 15, 2021 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Not Enabled |
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