Please join us at the CAMRI seminar in Central London – note that next week the seminar will be on a Tuesday.
‘Raging Soundbytes: Listening for the Political in Digital India’
Aswin Punathambekar [University of Michigan],
Date: Tuesday, 22 November
Time: 1700-1900
309 Regent Street, W1B 2HT
Room: UG04
All seminars are free. To understand how many attendees we can expect, we kindly ask you to register.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raging-soundbytes-listening-for-the-political-in-the-digital-age-punathambekar-uomichigan-tickets-27463104886
Shouting, chanting, murmuring, whispering, and choosing to remain silent are all ways of making oneself heard. However, voice, speech, and representation continue to be privileged over listening when it comes to understanding democratic participation. We are only now beginning to take into account a wider range of sounds, their circulation, and varied listening practices that are re-shaping political culture in different parts of the world.
To explore how emergent media practices involving a contagious sound can make a particular issue or topic salient and even eventful in a contentious and deeply hierarchical public sphere, this presentation focuses on the circulation of a catchy tune, a sound-byte from a popular Tamil film song, Why This Kolaveri Di (Why This Murderous Rage, 2011) paying close attention to the many sonic dimensions at play.
Bio:
Aswin Punathambekar is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Director of the Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (NYU Press, 2013), and co-editor of Global Bollywood (2008), Television at Large in South Asia (2013), and the forthcoming anthology Digital South Asia (University of Michigan Press). He currently co-edits the Critical Cultural Communication book series for NYU Press, and along with Dr. Anastasia Kavada (Univ. of Westminster), he serves as an Associate Editor of Media, Culture and Society.
The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.
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