[Linganth] Amanda Weidman on December 10th

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
In the CaMP virtual reading group, we 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.



The reading can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fg3cibbxouas7qi/weidman.brought-to-life-by-the-voice-chapter.pdf?dl=0


The whole book can be found here:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520377066/brought-to-life-by-the-voice



The meeting will be 1-2 pm  EST on Friday, December 10th, and can be

reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698

Looking forward to seeing many of you virtually,

Ilana


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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