Voice / Jane Boston.
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TextSeries: Readings in theatre practicePublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Description: 192 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137301949 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Voice culture | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 808.5 Summary: This wide-ranging volume explores the technical and physical aspects of voice as a craft, questioning its definitions, its historical presence, training practices and its publications. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Jane Boston presents a selection of readings that demonstrate and contextualise some of the defining moments of voice throughout history. This clear and accessible text examines the relationship between voice and aesthetics and poetics, against the backdrop of class, race and gender politics, demonstrating how vocal training has been and still is inevitably connected to such issues. Underpinned by theory, voice practitioner accounts, and cultural and historical contextualisation, this comprehensive resource will be invaluable for practitioners, researchers and students of voice studies, physical theatre and theatre history.
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| 808.5 BER Your voice and how to use it / | 808.5 BER Your voice and how to use it / | 808.5 BER Your voice and how to use it / | 808.5 BOS Voice / | 808.5 BOS Voice / | 808.5 CUR Mind and voice : principles and methods in vocal training / | 808.5 FIS This is a voice : 99 exercises to train, project and harness the power of your voice / |
This wide-ranging volume explores the technical and physical aspects of voice as a craft, questioning its definitions, its historical presence, training practices and its publications. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Jane Boston presents a selection of readings that demonstrate and contextualise some of the defining moments of voice throughout history. This clear and accessible text examines the relationship between voice and aesthetics and poetics, against the backdrop of class, race and gender politics, demonstrating how vocal training has been and still is inevitably connected to such issues. Underpinned by theory, voice practitioner accounts, and cultural and historical contextualisation, this comprehensive resource will be invaluable for practitioners, researchers and students of voice studies, physical theatre and theatre history.
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