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Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship

Laura Brueck, Jacob Smith, and Neil Verma, editors
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From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state.

Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. "Scapes, Sites, and Circulations" considers the spatial and circulatory ways in which sound "happens" in and around Indian sound cultures, including diasporic cultures. "Voice" emphasizes voices that embody a variety of struggles and ambiguities, particularly around gender and performance. Finally, "Cinema Sound" make specific arguments about film sound in the Indian context, from the earliest days of talkie technology to contemporary Hindi films and experimental art installations.

Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian Studies by questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to the sonic world of the subcontinent.

 

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Out of the West, Out of the Text
  • SECTION ONE: Scapes, Sites, and Circulations
    • 1. Sound Clouds
    • 2. Sounding Out the Crowd
    • 3. It’s Rocking?
    • 4. High-Fidelity Ecologies
  • SECTION TWO: Voice
    • 5. Usha Uthup and Her Husky, Heavy Voice
    • 6. Narendra Modi Speaks the Nation
    • 7. Voice of the Voiceless
    • 8. From Punjab Trilogy to the BBC Eastern Service
  • SECTION THREE: Cinema Sound
    • 9. Between Rage and Song
    • 10. Have Mandolin Will Travel
    • 11. To Speak or Not to Speak
    • 12. “Listen My Heart”
  • Contributors
  • Index
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Published: 2020
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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  • 978-0-472-12623-1 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-05434-3 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-07434-1 (hardcover)
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  • Asian Studies:South/Southeast Asia
  • Media Studies

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Fig. 1. Album cover art showing Uthup as a live performer

Fabulous Usha Iyer with the Flintstones

From Chapter 5

Fig. 1. Album cover art depicting Uthup as a live performer

Fig. 2. Still from Standing By (2015) showing Uthup onstage

Usha Iyer in performance

From Chapter 5

Fig. 2. Still from Standing By (2015) depicting Uthup onstage

Fig. 1. Transcription of “Ghar Aaja Pardesi

Figure 1: Transcription of “Ghar Aaja Pardesi.” Transcription by author

From Chapter 10

Fig. 1. Transcription of “Ghar Aaja Pardesi.” (Musical Transcription by the author)

Fig. 2. Musical transcription of “Mere Khwabon Mein

Figure 2: Musical transcription of “Mere Khwabon Mein.” Transcription by author

From Chapter 10

Fig. 2. Musical transcription of “Mere Khwabon Mein.” (Transcription by the author)

Fig. 3. Musical transcription of “Ho Gaya Hai Tujhko

Figure 3: Musical transcription of “Ho Gaya Hai Tujhko.” Transcription by author

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Fig. 3. Musical transcription of “Ho Gaya Hai Tujhko.” (Transcription by the author)

Fig. 4. Musical transcription of “Tujhe Dekha To Yeh Jaana

Figure 4: Musical transcription of “Tujhe Dekha To Yeh Jaana.” Transcription by author

From Chapter 10

Fig. 4. Musical transcription of “Tujhe Dekha To Yeh Jaana.” (Transcription by the author)

Fig. 1. Photo of Csystophone sound film equipment sold alongside RCA Photophone equipment

Csystophone Sound Film Equipment, Filmland, Vol.III, No.122, August 13, 1932, p.23

From Chapter 11

Fig. 1 “Made in India” Csystophone sound film equipment sold alongside RCA Photophone equipment. (Filmland 3, no. 122 [August 13, 1932]: 23)

Fig. 2. Photo of an advertisement for the Motiograph recording and projection device

Motiograph De Luxe, Filmland, Vol.III, No.127, Puja Number, 1932.tif

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Fig. 2. Advertisement for the Motiograph recording and projection device, which was sold in India, Burma, and Ceylon. (Filmland 3, no. 127 [1932])

Fig. 3. Photo of an RCA recorder used by Sree Bharat Lakshmi Pictures, Kolkata.

RCA recorder

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Fig. 3. RCA recorder used by Sree Bharat Lakshmi Pictures, Kolkata

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