Brought to Life by the Voice : : Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India / / Amanda Weidman.

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 celeb...

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Superior document:South Asia Across the Disciplines
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Place / Publishing House:[s.l.] : : University of California Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:South Asia Across the Disciplines
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t List of Illustrations --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Note on Transliteration and Spelling --  |t Introduction: Theorizing Playback --  |t Part I. Prehistories --  |t 1. Trading Voices: The Gendered Beginnings of Playback --  |t Part II. Playback's Dispensation --  |t 2. "A Leader for All Song": Making a Dravidian Voice --  |t 3. Ambiguities of Animation: On Being "Just the Voice" --  |t 4. The Sacred and the Profane: Economies of the (Il)licit --  |t Part III. Afterlives --  |t 5. The Raw and the Husky: On Timbral Qualia and Ethnolinguistic Belonging --  |t 6. Anxieties of Embodiment: Liveness and Deadness in the New Dispensation --  |t 7. Antiplayback --  |t Notes --  |t References --  |t Index 
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