"Listen my heart" : Sound art, cinema, and the possibilities of surround sound / Alexis Bhegat and Lauren Rosati. Section three. Scapes, sites, and circulations. Sound clouds : Listening and citizenship in Indian public culture / Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan ; Sounding out the crowd : Sonic political futures in migrant Mumbai / Kathryn C. Hardy ; It's rocking? : Exploring sound and intimacy through Mumbai's faltering Indipop music industry / Peter Kvetko ; High-fidelity ecologies : India versus noise pollution in the contemporary public sphere / Samhita Sunya -- Section two. Voice. Usha Uthup and her husky, heavy voice / Pavitra Sundar ; Narendra Modi speaks the nation : Masculinity, radio, and voice / Praseeda Gopinath ; Voice of the voiceless : Audiobook performance and the meaning of sound in new nonfiction from India / Roanne L. Kantor ; From Punjab trilogy to the BBC Eastern Service : The political critiques and cultural mediations of Mulk Raj Anand / Sejal Sutaria -- Section three. Cinema sound. Between rage and song : Voice, performance, and instrumentation in Shanta Apte's films of the 1930s / Neepa Majumdar ; Have mandolin will travel : Musical and affective themes of DDLJ / Jayson Beaster-Jones ; To speak or not to speak : Publicity, public opinion, and the transition to talkies (Calcutta, Bengal, 1931-35) / Madhuja Mukherjee ; "Listen my heart" : Sound art, cinema, and the possibilities of surround sound / Alexis Bhegat and Lauren Rosati.
Summary:
"From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state. Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. "Scapes, Sites, and Circulations" considers the spatial and circulatory ways in which sound "happens" in and around Indian sound cultures, including diasporic cultures. "Voice" emphasizes voices that embody a variety of struggles and ambiguities, particularly around gender and performance. Finally, "Cinema Sound" make specific arguments about film sound in the Indian context, from the earliest days of talkie technology to contemporary Hindi films and experimental art installations. Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian Studies by questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to the sonic world of the subcontinent"-- Provided by publisher.
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