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.
 

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ISBN-13: 9780472054343
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 05/14/2020
Pages: 338
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

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

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Out of the West, Out of the Text Laura Brueck Jacob Smith Neil Verma 1

Section 1 Scapes, Sites, and Circulations

1 Sound Clouds: Listening and Citizenship in Indian Public Culture Aswin Punatham Bekar Sriram Mohan 19

2 Sounding Out the Crowd: Sonic Political Futures in Migrant Mumbai Kathryn C. Hardy 44

3 It's Rocking? Exploring Sound and Intimacy through Mumbai's Faltering Indipop Music Industry Peter Kvetko 72

4 High-Fidelity Ecologies: India versus Noise Pollution in the Contemporary Public Sphere Samhita Sunya 88

Section 2 Voice

5 Usha Uthup and Her Husky, Heavy Voice Pavitra Sundar 115

6 Narendra Modi Speaks the Nation: Masculinity, Radio, and Voice Praseeda Gopinath 152

7 Voice of the Voiceless: Audiobook Performance and the Meaning of Sound in New Nonfiction from India Roanne L. Kantor 174

8 From Punjab Trilogy to the BBC Eastern Service: The Political Critiques and Cultural Mediations of Mulk Raj Anand Sejal Sutaria 201

Section 3 Cinema Sound

9 Between Rage and Song: Voice, Performance, and Instrumentation in Shanta Apte's Films of the 1930s Neepa Majumdar 229

10 Have Mandolin Will Travel: Musical and Affective Themes of DDLJ Jayson Beaster-Jones 244

11 To Speak or Not to Speak: Publicity, Public Opinion, and the Transition to Talkies (Calcutta, Bengal, 1931-35) Madhuja Mukherjee 268

12 "Listen My Heart": Sound Art, Cinema, and the Possibilities of Surround Sound Alexis Bhagat Lauren Rosati 297

Contributors 311

Index 317

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