Research Catalog

Title

The voice in violence and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training : [essays on voice and speech] / presented by the Voice and speech review ; edited by Rocco Dal Vera.

Publication

Cincinnati, OH : Voice and Speech Trainers Association ; [New York] : Distributed by Applause Books, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Dal Vera, Rocco
• Voice and Speech Trainers Association

Description

336 p. : ill., ports.; 28 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Voice & speech review.

Subject

• Voice culture
• Acting
• Speech
• Voice culture > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Acting > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Speech > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Stage combat
• Stage combat
• Voice Training

Note

• "A publication of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association"--Cover.
• Sub-title from cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Letter from the Editor: Teaching Violence / Rocco Dal Vera -- Letter from the President / Kate Burke -- Vocal Production, Voice Related Movement Studies -- Introduction to the Papers on Voice in Violence / Marth Munro -- An Interview with Bonnie Raphael / Ursula Meyer -- Staged Violence: Greater then the Sum of Its Parts / Bonnie Raphael -- Some Personal Discoveries Regarding Vocal Use in Stage Combat / Lise Olson -- Orchestrating the Music of the Fight / Elizabeth Wiley, Marth Munro, Allan Munro -- Neglected and Abused: Domestic Violence / Michelle Ladd -- Six Poems on the Theme of Domestic Violence / Jan Gist -- The Voice in Heightened Affective States / Rocco Dal Vera -- To Train and Test the Voice in Violence / Karen S. Ryker -- The Performance Scream: Vocal Use or Abuse? / Kate Ufema, Douglas W. Montequin -- Voice and Choreography of Staged Violence: a Survey / Matt Harding -- Voicing the Visceral: An Interview with Erik Fredericksen and k. Jenny Jones / Marie-Heleen Coetzee -- Voice/Combat Conversation / Marya Lowry, Robert Walsh -- "I'm a Singer, not a Fighter" / James Newcomb, Ursula Meyer -- Looping: The Voice of Violence on Film / Rocco Dal Vera -- Voices from Around the World: Kevin Crawford / Marth Munro -- Ethics, Standards and Practices -- Credit Where Credit is Due / Marian Hampton -- The Cultural Voice: An Interview with Danny Hoch / Stan Brown -- To Refer or Not to Refer / Kate DeVore -- The Vocal Overdoer Syndrome / Robert Bastian, MD -- Pedagogy and Coaching -- Introduction / Paul Meier.

ISBN

1557834970

OCLC

• 48477611
• SCSB-11836868

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library