Brought to life by the voice : : playback singing and cultural politics in South India / / Amanda J. 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...
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Weidman, Amanda J., 1970- author. Brought to life by the voice : playback singing and cultural politics in South India / Amanda J. Weidman. Brought to Life by the Voice Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Description based on print version record. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : theorizing playback -- Trading voices : the gendered beginnings of playback -- 'A leader for all song' : making a dravidian voice -- Ambiguities of animation : on being 'just the voice' -- The sacred and the profane : economies of the (il)licit -- The raw and the husky : on timbral qualia and ethnolinguistic belonging -- Anxieties of embodiment : liveness and deadness in the new dispensation -- Anti-playback. Motion picture music India, South History and criticism. Musical films Social aspects India, South. 0-520-37706-0 |
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Introduction : theorizing playback -- Trading voices : the gendered beginnings of playback -- 'A leader for all song' : making a dravidian voice -- Ambiguities of animation : on being 'just the voice' -- The sacred and the profane : economies of the (il)licit -- The raw and the husky : on timbral qualia and ethnolinguistic belonging -- Anxieties of embodiment : liveness and deadness in the new dispensation -- Anti-playback. |
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