Pub Date : 2021-12-23DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2016274
R. Miles
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2010898
Guro von Germeten
ABSTRACT An original cast recording is produced to prolong the musical theatre experience, serving as a sound souvenir, a marketing tool, and a means to a commercial end, contributing to a show’s overall success and impact. However, it also plays a part in performance practices, assisting singers and voice teachers in learning new repertoire, and navigating an omnivorous performance field drawing on a wide variety of vocal and musical styles and aesthetics to tell its stories. In this regard, the original cast recordings take on the status of so-called vocal scripts, here defined as sonic entities choreographing social interactions between players, making them objects of interest in performance research and performing arts pedagogy. Drawing on writings from the fields of musicology, cultural sociology, and voice studies, this article’s theoretical contribution is twofold; (1) on a conceptual level, offering insight into and establishing the term vocal script, and (2) from a vocal pedagogical stance, exploring the ways of listening involved when interacting with a multifaceted vocal script. This article argues for taking the original cast recordings seriously within the theatre profession as material mediators, playing active parts in the formations of vocal behaviors, vocal styles, vocal tastes, and vocal pedagogies.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.1989876
Rena Cook
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2014119
K. Cunningham, Srihimaja Nandamudi
ABSTRACT When teaching voice for actors, much of the teacher’s work dwells in the realm of perceptual skills and assessment. Acting voice pedagogy often requires students to imagine physiological processes using the teacher’s descriptive imagery. Students’ progress may benefit from the incorporation of technology to teach and envision aspects of the voice that cannot be seen or are difficult to imagine. Acoustic assessment using computer software offers potential opportunities for making the intangible or imperceptible more precise and perceivable. Acoustic measures provide objective information to correlate with auditory perceptual judgments of vocal quality, discriminate between normal and disordered vocal quality, and are sufficiently stable to assess change in performance across time. For the acting voice teacher interested in exploring acoustic assessment, this paper introduces the parameters of acoustic analysis and envisions its potential uses in the studio or classroom. The teacher who explores acoustic assessment may discover new ways to discuss voice production and new tools to describe and vivify voice work using an unexpected artistic source: data. In concert with clinicians on the actor’s voice care team, the acting voice teacher versed in acoustic voice analysis may offer their students an enhanced approach to acting and speaking voice habilitation.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-07DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2010349
M. Morgan
ABSTRACT Voice and speech practitioners have navigated unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, thirty scholar-artists assembled to discuss the realities of navigating their field during these challenges. Fifteen hours of video content was edited into an hour-long digital presentation that highlighted these individuals and their collective journeys. This article provides an analysis of the collected knowledge of the specialists who facilitate voice and speech-work in theatre, television, and corporate environments as presented in the digital documentary called “Quarantine Stories-VASTA.” This article explores the questions: (1) How has the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic changed voice and speech specialists as educators? (2) What innovative instructional methods have been discovered? (3) What innovative practices should continue past the current crisis? This article documents the practice as research methodology and artistic choices within the final digital presentation. Ultimately, the study concludes that the pandemic and the concurrent racial justice movement have led to innovation and a positive impact that will change the voice and speech field for years to come.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2004781
Krista Scott
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2003120
Erika Bailey
appendix is included providing the reader some tips and strategies from real-world British and Australian actors about using an American accent. Overall, American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers contains a plethora of useful stimuli that target a hierarchy of complexity, moving through single words, short phrases, sentences, and longer dialogues. These drills would be very welcome for any coach seeking coherent examples to illustrate and target specific sounds and for the actor to use in specific, targeted practice. The availability of audio files to supplement the material is vital and a helpful addition to support different learning styles. The volume itself would benefit from visual diagrams to assist with tongue or lip positioning and clearer use of terminology (around / t/ sounds, in particular) would aid its applicability. The addition of missing vowels, in particular KIT, would provide a more comprehensive overview for readers. Nevertheless, Quaid’s pragmatic approach encourages actors and coaches to focus on naturalistic and everyday speech as the aim for accent work, highlighting the need to establish nuance and identity. Quaid’s book is a useful resource for actors and coaches as an overview and summary of a general American accent and provides plenty of stimuli that will help actors and coaches target and develop American accent skills.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2000712
D’Arcy Smith, Chaslee Schweitzer
Vocal Traditions is a series in the Voice and Speech Review that highlights both historically important and contemporary voice teachers and schools of thought in the world of vocal pedagogy. This essay explores the background of the Vocal Combat Technique, the central features of the system, and the pillars of the technique.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2001949
Warren Chu
In 2018, I became the first teacher of Linklater Voice to teach the work in China in Mandarin. As fate would have it, I was and still am the first and only Designated Linklater Voice Teacher to blaze the trail in this country and who is able to teach it in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. I was admitted as a foreign staff at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, one of China’s top (or as the faculty would like to repeatedly tell me) the top drama school within the country, with around 15,000 yearly applicants applying to their BFA Acting program of 40 spaces. Despite the initial fanfare, these facts had many implications for me as a voice teacher, and this brings me to my list of challenges. The challenges are different and conflicting pedagogical material, different and conflicting teaching styles, having to learn Mandarin on the job, and students not being able to apply what they were learning in my voice classes within their Meisner acting classes. After detailing each challenge, I will discuss what solutions I came up with.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2021.2004779
Shannon Holmes
Later in Chapter 8 (“Placement”), the author speaks about the intrinsic muscles of the larynx and the “muscular sling” that affect tone as follows: “A singer must be able to consciously adjust these muscles in order to produce a sung tone rich in timbre and resonant qualities” (92). Yet in the following paragraph, he contradicts this directive by saying, “we do not have direct control over these muscles [. . .] The only way we can influence them is by thinking of the resultant sound or quality they seem to produce” (92). These statements beg the question: can we attain this result with conscious control of the laryngeal muscles, or must we only imagine the desired sound to produce it? Your Body, Your Voice is not a training manual or a “how-to” book (“The Whispered Ah” is the only guided exercise provided). Its purpose is to elucidate the mechanical aspects of the voice, how they work together, and how we sometimes put them to use in habitually damaging ways. The colorful and efficacious illustrations attributed to David Brown and the in-depth descriptions of anatomy make this publication a useful guide for both learners and trainers of voice production. By understanding how all the skeletomuscular systems can and should synchronize with no unnecessary interference, one can begin to correct those behaviors “to restore [the voice] as an integrated whole” (131).
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