My PhD research aims to study the ways in which women’s voices are articulated within the context of rural north Indian women’s songs. I refer to such practices in my research as “vocal traditions” to highlight the socio-cultural politics and performativity of voice and its improvisatory potentialities. I explore how multimodal ethnography might facilitate a space for rural women to exchange and digitally share their songs with other community members across gender, caste and generation.
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