Brought to life by the voice : playback singing and cultural politics in South India /

Brought to life by the voice : playback singing and cultural politics in South India /

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Author / Creator:	Weidman, Amanda J., 1970- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Description:	xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	South Asia across the disciplines South Asia across the disciplines.
Subject:	Motion picture music -- India, South -- History and criticism. Musical films -- India, South -- History and criticism. Musical films -- Social aspects -- India, South. Singing in motion pictures. Motion picture music. Musical films. Singing in motion pictures. South India. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12638549

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ISBN:	9780520377066 0520377060 9780520976399
Language / Script:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license. To view a copy of the license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Weidman, Amanda J., 1970- Brought to life by the voice First edition. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520976399

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