Articles and Book Chapters by Vebhuti Duggal
Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology , 2023
As previous research on the role of the radio in (post)colonial India has shown, radio broadcasti... more As previous research on the role of the radio in (post)colonial India has shown, radio broadcasting is deeply implicated in the narratives of empire and postcolonial nation-building. Radio thus becomes seemingly synonymous with the imperial project during colonialism and with the national project in the postcolonial period. In this chapter, we shift scholarly attention to public discourse and audience formation during the early years of radio in colonial India (1925 and 1936). We analyse how early radio impacted people’s perception of space and place by re-structuring the geographies of ‘home’, ‘world’, and ‘empire’. We also show how the radio affected audiences along the rural-urban divide, re-configuring their understandings of sound, technology and listening.
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Film Studies: An Introduction, 2022
This is the editors' introduction to the volume, Film Studies: An Introduction. The volume addres... more This is the editors' introduction to the volume, Film Studies: An Introduction. The volume addresses the growing number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and programmes in Film Studies in Indian universities and colleges. It brings together chapters on key aspects of cinema: its forms, idioms and aesthetics; global film industries and genres; and critical concepts in Film Studies. Using examples from Indian cinema, strategically, it discusses these film theories, histories and movements in a comparative manner. Further, the book offers an overview of some of the complex trajectories of Indian cinema. It does so by distilling key debates and placing interventions by scholars of Indian cinema within the larger twin fields of film and media studies. For the first time, then, we have a book that can function as a pedagogic tool, filling a crucial gap in the field. Moreover, it reaches beyond the Indian university, contextualising Indian cinemas for readers across the world. In this way, the book also addresses a wider audience, which has a long-standing interest in global film forms and filmmaking practices. Outside the narrow confines of the university and geopolitical borders, in a rapidly transforming mediascape, this book connects the worlds of cinephilia, filmmaking and teaching.
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BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2021
Considering intermediality as a keyword in the context(s) of South Asian film and media.
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South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2021
This essay serves as an introduction to a special section on the senses in late colonial India. P... more This essay serves as an introduction to a special section on the senses in late colonial India. Participating in the act of decolonising sensory studies, this collection explores the intersections between post-colonial studies and sensory studies by paying particular attention to the sensorium of the colonised. In the historical and geographical context of colonial South Asia, the senses are embedded in acts of distinction across race, caste, class, and bodily and gender hierarchies. The collection intervenes by paying attention to the relationship between power and sense perception as it finds register in media, scientific practices and literature of the period. Across the section, we suggest that making sense of empire is also to make sense of the sensory regimes of empire that have resonances in the contemporary.
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Tejaswini Niranjana (Ed) Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020
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BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2018
In this essay, I look at the practice of writing requests for Hindi film songs to the radio, part... more In this essay, I look at the practice of writing requests for Hindi film songs to the radio, particularly during the first two decades after Independence. I attempt to reconstruct this radio-listening practice from narrative accounts of listeners, radio personnel and fan magazines produced during this period. The article argues that the pharmaish indicated practices of listening and publicity that provided the contours for (a) a mediatised form that emerges in a distinct manner on the radio, (b) a sonic map and (c) an act of 'recognition'. It is in these ways that the pharmaish may illuminate the elusive terrain of cinematic reception, through the film song as metonym, away from the physical site and time of the cinema hall.
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South Asian Popular Culture, 2017
This article explores the co-constitution of mobile phones and music consumption in India to exam... more This article explores the co-constitution of mobile phones and music consumption in India to examine the changing relationships between music, listeners, playback technologies and music markets. Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted between 2011 – 2013 and archival material from 2003 - 2013, we trace the intersections of vectors such as mobile phone technologies, the digital im/materiality of sound recordings, legal and extralegal economies, practices of listening, sharing, and storage. It is the intertwined and reciprocal relationships between these vectors that we elaborate upon in our narrative. In doing so, we are concerned with the rapid emergence in this historical moment of the mobile phone as an exceptionally popular music playback device, the legal and extra-legal practices that afforded this emergence, and the shifts in music-as-commodity as well as music listening that accompany the mobile phone.
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Marg: Special Issue on 100 Years of Indian Cinema, Jun 2013
The paper probes the routes of listening, loving and learning music that form part of the world o... more The paper probes the routes of listening, loving and learning music that form part of the world of the DJ, a profession that has arisen in India from the 1990s, at least in the figure of the 'mohalla DJ' that this paper discusses.
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The SAGE International Encyclopaedia of Music and Culture, 2019
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The SAGE International Encyclopaedia of Music and Culture, 2019
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Books by Vebhuti Duggal
This is the cover and TOC for the book Film Studies: An Introduction (Delhi/Kolkata: Worldview Pu... more This is the cover and TOC for the book Film Studies: An Introduction (Delhi/Kolkata: Worldview Publications). Co-edited by Vebhuti Duggal, Bindu Menon and Spandan Bhattacharya, it is designed as a textbook for film studies students, especially for those engaged in learning Indian cinema or in contexts which are deeply familiar with Indian cinema. This volume intends to provide an introduction to the salient debates and key terms of film studies, and thus, an overview of the larger field along with an introduction to the debates in Indian cinema.
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Book Reviews by Vebhuti Duggal
The Book Review, 2024
This brief essay reviews three recent books that work at the intersection of Sound Studies and th... more This brief essay reviews three recent books that work at the intersection of Sound Studies and the South Asian region as well as concerns coming from South Asia. The three books are:
RADIO FOR THE MILLIONS: HINDI-URDU BROADCASTING ACROSS BORDERS
Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Columbia University Press, New York, 2023, pp. 312,
$ 35.00/ £ 30.00
LISTENING WITH A FEMINIST EAR: SOUNDWORK IN BOMBAY CINEMA
Pavitra Sundar
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2023, pp. 282,
$ 29.95
THINKING WITH AN ACCENT: TOWARD A NEW OBJECT, METHOD, AND PRACTICE
Edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar with a Foreword by John Baugh
University of California Press, 2023, pp. 334, $ 34.95
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Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2017
Review of "Filming Horror: Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies" by Meraj Ahmed Mubarki New Delhi/... more Review of "Filming Horror: Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies" by Meraj Ahmed Mubarki New Delhi/ Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2016.
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Studies in South Asian Film and Media Vol 6, no. 1, 2014
This is a review of
Gregory Booth and Bradley Shope (eds) More than Bollywood: Studies in India... more This is a review of
Gregory Booth and Bradley Shope (eds) More than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music. NY/London: OUP, 2014.
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Dissertation by Vebhuti Duggal
PhD thesis
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MPhil Thesis
Beginning with the story of the Hindi Film song remix's death and disappearance, I wish to find o... more Beginning with the story of the Hindi Film song remix's death and disappearance, I wish to find out, through this dissertation, how the genre emerged and was produced in a particular period; how it circulated and proliferated and how it survives. I seek then, to tell the tale of the remix’s birth and
life, recognising, that today, as per some, I should perhaps be writing its epitaph. Its estimated lifespan is probably difficult to estimate, but I will take as limit-points the
years 1994 and 2006. From this nine-year span, I begin to address the years during this period, before and after. I do not use these points to suggest that this is the length
of the genre’s life.
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Conference Presentations by Vebhuti Duggal
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RADIO FOR THE MILLIONS: HINDI-URDU BROADCASTING ACROSS BORDERS
Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Columbia University Press, New York, 2023, pp. 312,
$ 35.00/ £ 30.00
LISTENING WITH A FEMINIST EAR: SOUNDWORK IN BOMBAY CINEMA
Pavitra Sundar
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2023, pp. 282,
$ 29.95
THINKING WITH AN ACCENT: TOWARD A NEW OBJECT, METHOD, AND PRACTICE
Edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar with a Foreword by John Baugh
University of California Press, 2023, pp. 334, $ 34.95
Gregory Booth and Bradley Shope (eds) More than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music. NY/London: OUP, 2014.
Dissertation by Vebhuti Duggal
life, recognising, that today, as per some, I should perhaps be writing its epitaph. Its estimated lifespan is probably difficult to estimate, but I will take as limit-points the
years 1994 and 2006. From this nine-year span, I begin to address the years during this period, before and after. I do not use these points to suggest that this is the length
of the genre’s life.
Conference Presentations by Vebhuti Duggal
RADIO FOR THE MILLIONS: HINDI-URDU BROADCASTING ACROSS BORDERS
Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Columbia University Press, New York, 2023, pp. 312,
$ 35.00/ £ 30.00
LISTENING WITH A FEMINIST EAR: SOUNDWORK IN BOMBAY CINEMA
Pavitra Sundar
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2023, pp. 282,
$ 29.95
THINKING WITH AN ACCENT: TOWARD A NEW OBJECT, METHOD, AND PRACTICE
Edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar with a Foreword by John Baugh
University of California Press, 2023, pp. 334, $ 34.95
Gregory Booth and Bradley Shope (eds) More than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music. NY/London: OUP, 2014.
life, recognising, that today, as per some, I should perhaps be writing its epitaph. Its estimated lifespan is probably difficult to estimate, but I will take as limit-points the
years 1994 and 2006. From this nine-year span, I begin to address the years during this period, before and after. I do not use these points to suggest that this is the length
of the genre’s life.