Listening with a Feminist Ear
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-13248-5 (ISBN)
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.
Pavitra Sundar is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Listening With a Feminist Ear
Listening as Habit and Hermeneutic
Soundwork
Inter-Aurality
Politics of Nation
Singing, Listening, Speaking
Chapter One: Singing
From Singing to Musicking: Women’s Voices, Bodies, and the Audiovisual Contract
Conjoining Sound and Image
Playback Singing and the “Old” Audiovisual Contract
Singing on Television
The “Ethnic” Voice and the Aural Lag
Millennial Soundwork
Women’s Musicking and the Somatic Clause
Chapter Two: Listening
Re-Sounding the Islamicate: The Cinematic Qawwali and its Listening Publics
Qawwalis’ Classic Features
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Ishq Ishq! Romance in Classic Qawwalis
World Music and Post-Liberalization
De-Islamicization and Irrelationality In Sufipop
Pious Listening in Dargah Qawwalis
Spectacular Dancing in Item Number-Esque Qawwalis
Chapter Three: Speaking
Speaking of the Xenophone: Language as Sound in Satya
From Cinematic Language to Dialogue-baazi
Language, Politics, and Cinema
Hindi Film Languages
Accenting Bambaiyya
Language, Violence, and Marginality
Dhichkiaoon! And Other Cinematic Sounds
Coda
Listening, Loving, Longing
Textual and Aural Pleasures
Translation and Temporality
Seditious Touching in Soundwork
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.08.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 11 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-13248-2 / 0472132482 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-13248-5 / 9780472132485 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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