ABSTRACT

This article investigates the practice of teaching and learning to ‘feel’ through film songs within the shifting political economy of contemporary India. Drawing on ethnographic research in a Mumbai popular music institute, I examine how music teachers use Hindi film songs alongside discourses of ‘feel’ to effect simultaneous shifts in students’ performances and embodied subjectivity. Situating the musical transmission of ‘feel’ within a consumption-oriented affective public culture, I argue that ‘feel’ is a newly desirable commodity that is sought out through product consumption and through artistic training. Bridging recent ethnomusicological work on affective pedagogy and scholarship on the role of affect in late capitalism, this article demonstrates that the cultivation of ‘feel’ through popular song in this music pedagogical context functions as a mode of affective labour that is critically linked to the formation of new expressive subjectivities and consumerist publics in contemporary India.

摘要

本文探讨了在当代印度政治经济转型中通过电影歌曲“感受”教学的实践。借助孟买流行音乐学院的人种学研究，我研究了音乐老师如何将印地语电影歌曲与“感觉”话语一起使用，以同时改变学生的演奏和体现的主体性。我将“感觉”的音乐传播置于一种以消费为导向的情感公共文化中，认为“感觉”是一种新近想要的商品，可以通过产品消费和艺术培训来寻找。将有关情感教育学的新的人类音乐学研究与关于情感在晚期资本主义中的作用的学术研究联系起来，