Brought to Life by the Voice Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India.

To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become revered celeb...

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Main Author:	Weidman, Amanda (auth)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oakland University of California Press 2021.
Subjects:	Anthropology. Black & Asian studies. Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography. Anthropology Asian Studies Ethnomusicology Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book