Brought to Life by the Voice Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India - South Asia Across the Disciplines

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. 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.

ISBN:	9780520377066
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	15 Jun 2021
DEWEY:	781.54209548
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	270
Weight:	352g
Height:	230mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	19mm

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