[Linganth] Listening with a Feminist Ear -- CaMP author interview

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP blog, Pavitra Sundar answers questions posed by Anaar
Desai-Stephens, discussing her book, Listening with a Feminist Ear:
Soundwork in Bombay Cinema.

The blog can be found here:
https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:  *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.
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