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Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship

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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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0472074342 / 9780472074341
Hardback
780.954
30/05/2020
United States
336 pages, 5 illustrations, 4 musical examples, 2 tables
152 x 229 mm, 568 grams
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