Category: playback singing
Event Start:
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 5:30pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
Female Voices in the Public Sphere: Playback Singing as Cultural Phenomenon in South India.A talk by
Amanda WeidmanLocation: The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall
Tuesday, March 9, 5.30 pm
Playback singing, a process in which the voices of professional singers are first recorded in the studio, and then “played back” on the set to be lip synched by actors, is foundational to Indian popular cinema. More than simply a technological process, it is a cultural phenomenon enabled by technological capacities that allow voices to be recorded, manipulated, amplified, circulated, and matched with various images. Playback singers are celebrities in their own right, and playback singing is a realm of vocality intricately encoded with meaning, as voices are explicitly and powerfully linked to class, caste, community, and regional identity through film song sequences.
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