Listening with a Feminist Ear Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

• Main Author: Sundar, Pavitra
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2023
• Subjects: accent; Asian Studies; audiovisual contract; aural lag; Bambaiyya; body; Bollywood; Bombay cinema; cinephilia; classic qawwali; communal; Cultural & Ethnic Studies; cultural politics; dargah qawwali; dialogue; Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies; Ethnomusicology; Feminism and motion pictures; Feminism and motion pictures > Mumbai; feminist ear; Film Studies; Films, cinema; gangster genre; gender; Hindi cinema; India; inter-aural; Islamicate; item number; language; liberalization; Listening; listening public; media; millennial soundwork; Motion pictures; Motion pictures > Social aspects > India Mumbai; Multi-Cultural; Music; musical; musicking; nation; Nonfiction; Performing arts; playback; qawwali; regional; religion; romance; sexuality; singing; Social aspects; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; somatic clause; song sequences; sound; Sound in motion pictures; soundtrack; soundwork; speaking; speech; Sufipop; tapori; Television; The Arts; Theory of music and musicology; voice; Voice in motion pictures; voicing; xenophone; Mumbai; India

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 t...