The Voice in Violence

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ISBN: 9781557834973 | 1557834970
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2001

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This collection from The Voice and Speech Trainers Association focuses on the voice in stage violence, addressing such questions as: * How does one scream safely? * What are the best ways to orchestrate voices in complex battle scenes? * How to voice coaches work collaboratively with fight directors and the rest of the creative team? * What techniques are used to re-voice violent stunt scenes on film? * How accurate are actor presentations of extreme emotion? * What is missing from many portrayals of domestic violence? Written by leading theatre voice and speech coaches, the volume contains 63 articles, essays, interviews and reviews covering a wide variety of professional concerns.

Letter from the Editor: Teaching Violence	p. 2
Letter from the President	p. 5
Letters to the Editor	p. 8
Vocal Production, Voice Related Movement Studies
Introduction to the Papers on Voice in Violence	p. 14
An Interview with Bonnie Raphael	p. 16
Staged Violence: Greater then the Sum of Its Parts	p. 22
Some Personal Discoveries Regarding Vocal Use in Stage Combat	p. 30
Orchestrating the Music of the Fight	p. 34
Neglected and Abused: Domestic Violence	p. 38
Six Poems on the Theme of Domestic Violence	p. 39
The Voice in Heightened Affective States	p. 50
To Train and Test the Voice in Violence	p. 66
The Performance Scream: Vocal Use or Abuse?	p. 74
Voice and Choreography of Staged Violence: a Survey	p. 87
Voicing the Visceral: An Interview with Erik Fredericksen and k. Jenny Jones	p. 95
Voice/Combat Conversation	p. 105
"I'm a Singer, not a Fighter"	p. 111
Looping: The Voice of Violence on Film	p. 113
Voices from Around the World: Kevin Crawford	p. 118
Ethics, Standards and Practices
Credit Where Credit is Due	p. 120
The Cultural Voice: An Interview with Danny Hoch	p. 124
To Refer or Not to Refer	p. 129
The Vocal Overdoer Syndrome	p. 135
Pedagogy and Coaching
Introduction	p. 139
Applying Theories of Learning Styles and Modalities to the Teaching of Voice and Speech, Part Two	p. 140
Many "Right" Ways: Honoring diverse teaching and learning modes	p. 145
Earning the Role: the Company Voice Coach, an Interview with Andrew Wade	p. 148
You've Got to be a Chameleon: Interviews with Leading Vocal Coaches	p. 155
Language-Based Voice Development	p. 169
Rough Eloquence: Voice Training for Young People	p. 177
An Outcomes-Based Approach for the Optimal Development of the Adolescent Voice	p. 186
Pronunciation, Phonetics, Dialect/Accent Studies
Introduction	p. 201
The Theatre of Theatre Voice	p. 203
Vocal Clarity in the Outdoor Theatre	p. 210
Voices from the Past: Sir Richard Paget 1869-1955	p. 223
Heightened Text, Verse and Scansion
Rhetoric Revisited	p. 229
Teaching Shakespeare Language Skills	p. 231
Voice and Speech Science, Vocal Health
Some Thoughts on VASTA	p. 240
To Smoke or Not to Smoke...	p. 244
The Impact of Pollution on the Voice	p. 247
Potential Adverse Effects of Herbs and Vitamins on Voice and Speech	p. 254
Private Studio Practice
Outside the Ivy Walls: A Meaningful Past that Looks Toward the Future	p. 269
On the Focus Point: The Next Generation	p. 271
The Communication Needs of Medical Practitioners: The Application of Voice Training to a Non-Theatre Based Context	p. 276
Building Up Your Business Clientele	p. 283
Singing
Journal 2001	p. 292
From Here to There: Becoming a Voice Specialist	p. 294
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Breath and Sound Production in Pansori	p. 297
Sing Better, Work More: Integrating Singing Technique into Theatre Voice Training	p. 312
Reviews and Sources
Reviews and Sources	p. 315
Bodymind and voice	p. 316
Accents: A Manual for Actors	p. 317
Make Your Voice Heard	p. 318
Shakespeare's Names: A Pronouncing Dictionary	p. 319
Voice Handbook: workshops from the DCPA	p. 321
Breathing: The Source of Life	p. 322
Twelfth Night	p. 324
Old Money	p. 327
An Interview with Mark Harelick	p. 329
Selected Thesis Abstracts	p. 333
Selected Abstracts on the Theme of the Voice in Violence	p. 336
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