Lipsynching

By Merrie Snell

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501352350
• ISBN13: 9781501352355
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"