Sound Studies
By Ashis Ghatak
The Musical Maverick: An Authorized Biography of Shankar Mahadevan by Ashis Ghatak chronicles the life of the versatile music director, singer, and performer who has played a critical role in scaling up the soundtracks of not just Bollywood films but also genres like fusion jazz, Indipop, and a modern, refurbished aural universe of devotional music.
Edited by Laura Brueck, Jacob Smith and Neil Verma
The third section of essays is ‘Post-cinematic Flows’. The title of this section hints at the changing nature of the cinematic medium and its viewing whether in public, semi-public or entirely private settings and transformations in its circulation and consumption. Madhuja Mukherjee’s essay on balances at play in video making in the Manbhum region of Bengal
By Isabel Huacuja Alonso
The politics of listening and sounding extends from Pavitra Sundar’s work to Rangan et al’s discussion on accent—common to both is the figure of the xenophone. The interdisciplinary volume on accent draws upon contributions ranging from literature and linguistics to anthropology and media studies—opens up the accent as an unstable element, one that ‘raises questions about power, hierarchy and difference’ (p. 3). Accent, for the volume’s authors and editors