• ISBN13: 9789355720702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: June 7, 2021
• Pages: 370
• Original Price: INR 1495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: N/A

The essays in Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship argue that sound, from the cinema hall to the recording studio and the public festival ground, is inextricably linked to issues of citizenship, identity, and belonging in India. Together, the contributions in this volume investigate the sonic turn in the study of South Asia by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts, and by exploring the diverse ways in which sound has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state. Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian studies with questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to understanding the sonic world of the subcontinent.

Laura Brueck is Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University. She is the author of Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (2014) which analyses the vernacular discursive sphere of contemporary Hindi Dalit literature. Jacob Smith is Professor in the Department of Radio­Television­Film and Director of the masters’ program in Sound Arts and Industries at Northwestern University. He has written several books, including Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media (2008); Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures (2011); and has published articles on media history, sound, and performance. Neil Verma is Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio­Television­Film at Northwestern University. He is the author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (2012), the winner of the Best First Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. He is also the founder of the Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies (GLASS).