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Lipsynching

  • Author: Snell, Merrie
Lipsynching
Engages with the phenomenon from a variety of different perspectives ... Snell covers interesting historical and technical material

Lipsynching

  • Author: Snell, Merrie

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Engages with the phenomenon from a variety of different perspectives ... Snell covers interesting historical and technical material

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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.

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Engages with the phenomenon from a variety of different perspectives ... Snell covers interesting historical and technical material
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