Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Out of the West, Out of the Text | Laura Brueck, Jacob Smith, and Neil Verma
Section One: Scapes, Sites, and Circulations
1. Sound Clouds: Listening and Citizenship in IndianPublic Culture | Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan
2. Sounding Out the Crowd: Sonic Political Futures in Migrant Mumbai | Kathryn C. Hardy
3. It’s Rocking? Exploring Sound and Intimacy through Mumbai’s Faltering Indipop Music Industry | Peter Kvetko
4. High-Fidelity Ecologies: India versus Noise Pollution in the Contemporary Public Sphere | Samhita Sunya
Section Two: Voice
5. Usha Uthup and Her Husky, Heavy Voice | Pavitra Sundar
6. Narendra Modi Speaks the Nation: Masculinity, Radio, and Voice | Praseeda Gopinath
7. Voice of the Voiceless: Audiobook Performance and the Meaning of Sound in New Nonfiction from India | Roanne L. Kantor
8. From Punjab Trilogy to the BBC Eastern Service: The Political Critiques and Cultural Mediations of Mulk Raj Anand | Sejal Sutaria
Section Three: Cinema Sound
9. Between Rage and Song: Voice, Performance, and Instrumentation in Shanta Apte’s Films of the 1930s | Neepa Majumdar
10. Have Mandolin Will Travel: Musical and Affective Themes of DDLJ | Jayson Beaster-Jones
11. To Speak or Not to Speak: Publicity, Public Opinion, and the Transition to Talkies (Calcutta, Bengal, 1931–35) | Madhuja Mukherjee
12. “Listen My Heart”: Sound Art, Cinema, and the Possibilities of Surround Sound | Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati
Contributors
Index