Listening with a feminist ear : : soundwork in Bombay cinema / / Pavitra Sundar.

• VerfasserIn: Sundar, Pavitra,
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 pages) :; illustrations

Offers a study of the cultural politics of sound in Bollywood cinema. Taking as its subject the expansive domain of the aural in cinema, this book identifies singing, listening, and speaking in cinema as key sites in which notions of identity and difference take form.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Listening With a Feminist Ear Listening as Habit and Hermeneutic Soundwork Inter-Aurality Politics of Nation Singing, Listening, Speaking Chapter One: Singing From Singing to Musicking: Women's Voices, Bodies, and the Audiovisual Contract Conjoining Sound and Image Playback Singing and the "Old" Audiovisual Contract Singing on Television The "Ethnic" Voice and the Aural Lag Millennial Soundwork Women's Musicking and the Somatic Clause Chapter Two: Listening Re-Sounding the Islamicate: The Cinematic Qawwali and its Listening Publics Qawwalis' Classic Features 5 Ishq Ishq! Romance in Classic Qawwalis World Music and Post-Liberalization De-Islamicization and Irrelationality In Sufipop Pious Listening in Dargah Qawwalis Spectacular Dancing in Item Number-Esque Qawwalis Chapter Three: Speaking Speaking of the Xenophone: Language as Sound in Satya From Cinematic Language to Dialogue-baazi Language, Politics, and Cinema Hindi Film Languages Accenting Bambaiyya Language, Violence, and Marginality Dhichkiaoon! And Other Cinematic Sounds Coda Listening, Loving, Longing Textual and Aural Pleasures Translation and Temporality Seditious Touching in Soundwork Bibliography Index.