Lipsynching (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501352348)

What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book examines the practice of lipsynching to pre-recorded song in both professional and vernacular contexts, covering over a century of diverse artistic practices from early cinema through to the current popularity of self-produced internet lipsynching videos. It examines the ways in which we listen to, respond to, and use recorded music, not only as a commodity to be consumed but as a culturally-sophisticated and complex means of identification, a site of projection, introjection, and habitation, and, through this, a means of personal and collective creativity.

Author: Merrie Snell
ISBN-10: 1501352342
ISBN-13: 9781501352348
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2020
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d