Lipsynching (Snell Merrie (independent scholar writer and sound/video artist Independent scholar))(Paperback / softback)

What does it mean when a singing voice is distinct from an originating body? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book discusses the practice of lipsynching to pre-recorded song in both professional and vernacular contexts, covering over a century of diverse artistic practices from early drag performance, to David Lynch and John Hughes films, 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
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