3. Ambiguities of Animation: On Being “Just the Voice”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Transliteration and Spelling xv
6. Introduction: Theorizing Playback 1
7. Part I. Prehistories
8. 1. Trading Voices: The Gendered Beginnings of Playback 25
9. Part II. Playback’s Dispensation
10. 2. “A Leader for All Song”: Making a Dravidian Voice 53
11. 3. Ambiguities of Animation: On Being “Just the Voice” 78
12. 4. The Sacred and the Profane: Economies of the (Il)licit 104
13. Part III. Afterlives
14. 5. The Raw and the Husky: On Timbral Qualia and Ethnolinguistic Belonging 131
15. 6. Anxieties of Embodiment: Liveness and Deadness in the New Dispensation 158
16. 7. Antiplayback 187
17. Notes 205
18. References 225
19. Index 243