Lipsynching

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.