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University of California Press
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University of California Press
Publication Date:
2024-03-24
Description:
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.
Keywords:
Music
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Ethnomusicology
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History
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Asia
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India & South Asia
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Social Science
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Anthropology
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Cultural & Social
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thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
Language:
English
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