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

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weidman, Amanda J., 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Temas:
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.
Film, Musique de > Inde (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Films musicaux > Inde (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Films musicaux > Aspect social > Inde (Sud)
Chant au cinéma.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Motion picture music
Musical films
Singing in motion pictures
South India
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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