Lipsynching

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.

Product details

• Authors: Merrie Snell, Merrie (independent scholar Snell
• Assisted by: Michael Bull (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781501352355
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-5235-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: The Study of Sound
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Rock, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Films, cinema, Other performing arts, Pop Music, Popular Music, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General