<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><div>In the CaMP virtual reading group, w<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">e will be chatting with Amanda Weidman in two weeks, engaging with her new book, Brought to Life by the Voice.  The holidays has meant that we are meeting on the second Friday of the month this time.  She has asked us to read chapter 5.  Please read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything. </span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The reading can be found here:</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/fg3cibbxouas7qi/weidman.brought-to-life-by-the-voice-chapter.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/fg3cibbxouas7qi/weidman.brought-to-life-by-the-voice-chapter.pdf?dl=0</a></span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The whole book can be found here: </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520377066/brought-to-life-by-the-voice">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520377066/brought-to-life-by-the-voice</a></span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The meeting will be 1-2 pm  EST on Friday, December 10th, and can be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(14,113,235);box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px">https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to seeing many of you virtually,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ilana</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Press blurb: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian
popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then
played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses
as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become
revered celebrities in their own right. Brought to Life by the Voice explores
the distinctive aesthetics and affective power generated by this division of
labor between onscreen body and offscreen voice in South Indian Tamil cinema.
In Amanda Weidman's historical and ethnographic account, playback is not just a
cinematic technique, but a powerful and ubiquitous element of aural public
culture that has shaped the complex dynamics of postcolonial gendered
subjectivity, politicized ethnolinguistic identity, and neoliberal
transformation in South India.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>