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OverviewListening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics of sound in Bollywood cinema. Taking as its subject the expansive domain of the aural in cinema, this book identifies singing, listening, and speaking in cinema as key sites in which notions of identity and difference take form. The book traces sonic representations of gender and community across seven decades of Hindi film history and asks which sounds and tongues Bombay and its cinema call their own. The book takes seriously the radical potential of listening and models a critical orientation to the aural that can engender new imaginaries, while still being attuned to questions of difference, power, and privilege. Keeping in play the many different sonic elements that films use, as well as the “inter-aural” fields in which those sounds register, Listening with a Feminist Ear helps chart new and interdisciplinary paths through the history of cinema. Challenging the ocular-centrism of cinema studies and its emphasis on medium specificity, the book offers a feminist interpretive practice that centers sound and listening. It also moves beyond national, monolingual, and Eurocentric frameworks, generating counter-hegemonic understandings of belonging so sorely needed in our times. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pavitra SundarPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472132485ISBN 10: 0472132482 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 31 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Listening With a Feminist Ear Listening as Habit and Hermeneutic Soundwork Inter-Aurality Politics of Nation Singing, Listening, Speaking Chapter One: Singing From Singing to Musicking: Women’s Voices, Bodies, and the Audiovisual Contract Conjoining Sound and Image Playback Singing and the “Old” Audiovisual Contract Singing on Television The “Ethnic” Voice and the Aural Lag Millennial Soundwork Women’s Musicking and the Somatic Clause Chapter Two: Listening Re-Sounding the Islamicate: The Cinematic Qawwali and its Listening Publics Qawwalis’ Classic Features 5 Ishq Ishq! Romance in Classic Qawwalis World Music and Post-Liberalization De-Islamicization and Irrelationality In Sufipop Pious Listening in Dargah Qawwalis Spectacular Dancing in Item Number-Esque Qawwalis Chapter Three: Speaking Speaking of the Xenophone: Language as Sound in Satya From Cinematic Language to Dialogue-baazi Language, Politics, and Cinema Hindi Film Languages Accenting Bambaiyya Language, Violence, and Marginality Dhichkiaoon! And Other Cinematic Sounds Coda Listening, Loving, Longing Textual and Aural Pleasures Translation and Temporality Seditious Touching in Soundwork Bibliography IndexReviews"""Listening with a Feminist Ear is a tour de force. Using a robust theoretical framework, Sundar carefully illuminates the historical, technological, and ideological factors sustaining paradigms of sonic representation, effects, and modes of listening across seven decades of Hindi cinema. Superbly written and researched, this study foregrounds the importance of gender and sexuality in cinematic and cultural soundwork. Highly recommended."" --Caryl Flinn, University of Michigan--Caryl Flinn ""Listening with a Feminist Ear lives up to the promise of listening to sound differently and not just using sound to register difference. Sundar offers an elegant analysis of the power of listening and the generative potential of soundwork."" --Sujata Moorti, Middlebury College--Sujata Moorti ""Pavitra Sundar has made an important contribution to sound studies and film studies with this rigorous and insightful analysis of the singing, listening, and speaking of popular Bombay cinema. Sundar's clear prose and compelling case studies work to update the historical narrative and help us to listen more deeply, more broadly, and more sensitively to an influential tradition of soundwork."" --Jacob Smith, Northwestern University--Jacob Smith ""Sundar brings to the study of Bombay cinema the methods and insights of sound studies and feminism to produce a thoroughly original monograph that provides a model for how sound might be studied in cinema with an eye to historical and industrial specificity."" --Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon--Sangita Gopal" “Sundar brings to the study of Bombay cinema the methods and insights of sound studies and feminism to produce a thoroughly original monograph that provides a model for how sound might be studied in cinema with an eye to historical and industrial specificity.”—Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon “Listening with a Feminist Ear is a tour de force. Using a robust theoretical framework, Sundar carefully illuminates the historical, technological, and ideological factors sustaining paradigms of sonic representation, effects, and modes of listening across seven decades of Hindi cinema. Superbly written and researched, this study foregrounds the importance of gender and sexuality in cinematic and cultural soundwork. Highly recommended.”—Caryl Flinn, University of Michigan “Pavitra Sundar has made an important contribution to sound studies and film studies with this rigorous and insightful analysis of the singing, listening, and speaking of popular Bombay cinema. Sundar’s clear prose and compelling case studies work to update the historical narrative and help us to listen more deeply, more broadly, and more sensitively to an influential tradition of soundwork.”—Jacob Smith, Northwestern University “Listening with a Feminist Ear lives up to the promise of listening to sound differently and not just using sound to register difference. Sundar offers an elegant analysis of the power of listening and the generative potential of soundwork.”—Sujata Moorti, Middlebury College Author InformationPavitra Sundar is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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