[Linganth] Amanda Weidman on her new book about Tamil playback singers

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
This morning Costas Nakassis interviews Amanda Weidman about her new 
book, Brought to Life by the Voice.
This is a free open access book that you can find here: 
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.104/ 
<https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.104/>
You can find the interview here:
https://campanthropology.org <https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

The press blurb:
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.
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