Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship
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.
 
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Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship
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.
 
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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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472126231
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 05/14/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 338
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Laura Brueck is Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor of South Asian Literatures and Cultures at Northwestern University.
 
Jacob Smith is Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film and Director of the Master of Arts in Sound Arts and Industries and Northwestern University’s School of Communication.
 
Neil Verma
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University’s School of Communication.
 

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Out of the West, Out of the Text | Laura Brueck, Jacob Smith, and Neil Verma Section One: Scapes, Sites, and Circulations 1. Sound Clouds: Listening and Citizenship in IndianPublic Culture | Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan 2. Sounding Out the Crowd: Sonic Political Futures in Migrant Mumbai | Kathryn C. Hardy 3. It’s Rocking? Exploring Sound and Intimacy through Mumbai’s Faltering Indipop Music Industry | Peter Kvetko 4. High-Fidelity Ecologies: India versus Noise Pollution in the Contemporary Public Sphere | Samhita Sunya Section Two: Voice 5. Usha Uthup and Her Husky, Heavy Voice | Pavitra Sundar 6. Narendra Modi Speaks the Nation: Masculinity, Radio, and Voice | Praseeda Gopinath 7. Voice of the Voiceless: Audiobook Performance and the Meaning of Sound in New Nonfiction from India | Roanne L. Kantor 8. From Punjab Trilogy to the BBC Eastern Service: The Political Critiques and Cultural Mediations of Mulk Raj Anand | Sejal Sutaria Section Three: Cinema Sound 9. Between Rage and Song: Voice, Performance, and Instrumentation in Shanta Apte’s Films of the 1930s | Neepa Majumdar 10. Have Mandolin Will Travel: Musical and Affective Themes of DDLJ | Jayson Beaster-Jones 11. To Speak or Not to Speak: Publicity, Public Opinion, and the Transition to Talkies (Calcutta, Bengal, 1931–35) | Madhuja Mukherjee 12. “Listen My Heart”: Sound Art, Cinema, and the Possibilities of Surround Sound | Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati Contributors Index
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