Pavitra Sundar is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.

Honorable Mention of the 2023 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionListening With a Feminist EarListening as Habit and HermeneuticSoundworkInter-AuralityPolitics of NationSinging, Listening, SpeakingChapter One: SingingFrom Singing to Musicking: Women’s Voices, Bodies, and the Audiovisual ContractConjoining Sound and ImagePlayback Singing and the “Old” Audiovisual ContractSinging on TelevisionThe “Ethnic” Voice and the Aural LagMillennial SoundworkWomen’s Musicking and the Somatic ClauseChapter Two: ListeningRe-Sounding the Islamicate: The Cinematic Qawwali and its Listening PublicsQawwalis’ Classic Features5Ishq Ishq! Romance in Classic QawwalisWorld Music and Post-LiberalizationDe-Islamicization and Irrelationality In SufipopPious Listening in Dargah QawwalisSpectacular Dancing in Item Number-Esque QawwalisChapter Three: SpeakingSpeaking of the Xenophone: Language as Sound in SatyaFrom Cinematic Language to Dialogue-baaziLanguage, Politics, and CinemaHindi Film LanguagesAccenting BambaiyyaLanguage, Violence, and MarginalityDhichkiaoon! And Other Cinematic SoundsCodaListening, Loving, LongingTextual and Aural PleasuresTranslation and TemporalitySeditious Touching in SoundworkBibliographyIndex

Pavitra Sundar is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.

Honorable Mention of the 2023 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionListening With a Feminist EarListening as Habit and HermeneuticSoundworkInter-AuralityPolitics of NationSinging, Listening, SpeakingChapter One: SingingFrom Singing to Musicking: Women’s Voices, Bodies, and the Audiovisual ContractConjoining Sound and ImagePlayback Singing and the “Old” Audiovisual ContractSinging on TelevisionThe “Ethnic” Voice and the Aural LagMillennial SoundworkWomen’s Musicking and the Somatic ClauseChapter Two: ListeningRe-Sounding the Islamicate: The Cinematic Qawwali and its Listening PublicsQawwalis’ Classic Features5Ishq Ishq! Romance in Classic QawwalisWorld Music and Post-LiberalizationDe-Islamicization and Irrelationality In SufipopPious Listening in Dargah QawwalisSpectacular Dancing in Item Number-Esque QawwalisChapter Three: SpeakingSpeaking of the Xenophone: Language as Sound in SatyaFrom Cinematic Language to Dialogue-baaziLanguage, Politics, and CinemaHindi Film LanguagesAccenting BambaiyyaLanguage, Violence, and MarginalityDhichkiaoon! And Other Cinematic SoundsCodaListening, Loving, LongingTextual and Aural PleasuresTranslation and TemporalitySeditious Touching in SoundworkBibliographyIndex