Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvPavitra Sundar

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Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed disciplinary formations, the book takes seriously the radical theoretical and methodological potential of listening. It models a feminist interpretive practice that is not just attuned to how power and privilege are materialized in sound, but that engenders new, counter-hegemonic imaginaries.Focusing on mainstream Bombay cinema, Sundar identifies singing, listening, and speaking as key sites in which gendered notions of identity and difference take form. Charting new paths through seven decades of film, media, and cultural history, Sundar identifies key shifts in women’s playback voices and the Islamicate genre of the qawwali. She also conceptualizes spoken language as sound, and turns up the volume on a capacious, multilingual politics of belonging that scholarly and popular accounts of nation typically render silent. All in all, Listening with a Feminist Ear offers a critical sonic sensibility that reinvigorates debates about the gendering of voice and body in cinema, and the role of sound and media in conjuring community.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-14
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472039371

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Film inom Kultur
Filmmusik, musikaler och teatermusik inom Kultur
Musikvetenskap inom Kultur

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionListening With a Feminist EarListening as Habit and HermeneuticSoundworkInter-AuralityPolitics of NationSinging, Listening, SpeakingChapter One: SingingFrom Singing to Musicking: Women’s Voices, Bodies, and the Audiovisual ContractConjoining Sound and ImagePlayback Singing and the “Old” Audiovisual ContractSinging on TelevisionThe “Ethnic” Voice and the Aural LagMillennial SoundworkWomen’s Musicking and the Somatic ClauseChapter Two: ListeningRe-Sounding the Islamicate: The Cinematic Qawwali and its Listening PublicsQawwalis’ Classic Features5Ishq Ishq! Romance in Classic QawwalisWorld Music and Post-LiberalizationDe-Islamicization and Irrelationality In SufipopPious Listening in Dargah QawwalisSpectacular Dancing in Item Number-Esque QawwalisChapter Three: SpeakingSpeaking of the Xenophone: Language as Sound in SatyaFrom Cinematic Language to Dialogue-baaziLanguage, Politics, and CinemaHindi Film LanguagesAccenting BambaiyyaLanguage, Violence, and MarginalityDhichkiaoon! And Other Cinematic SoundsCodaListening, Loving, LongingTextual and Aural PleasuresTranslation and TemporalitySeditious Touching in SoundworkBibliographyIndex

"Pavitra Sundar's Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema, a lively, original, and cogent feminist analysis of singing, listening, and speaking in popular Bombay cinema, explores how gendered and sexualized identities materialize. Given the consistent attentiveness to the female body and voice in Bombay cinema, the intervention this book makes should be of interest to media and gender scholars. Each chapter offers rich and layered analyses that model the generative possibilities of feminist listening for a field that has until now primarily focused on the visual. Well-researched, building on the work of other scholars and placing them in conversation with Bombay cinema, the book offers new insights into feminist cinema studies. The methodological inventiveness of this work and the originality of its readings offer rich and exciting accounts of these cultural forms."