Tag: Voice

January 11, 2025

Singing Utopia Voice in Musical Theatre

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Free Download Singing Utopia: Voice in Musical Theatre by Ben Macpherson
English | November 25, 2024 | ISBN: 0197557643 | 288 pages | PDF | 8.94 Mb
Singing Utopia is a unique and ambitious work which asks us to listen differently to voice in musical theatre. Across fifteen case studies from Florodora to Hadestown, Ben Macpherson hears something utopian in the extraordinary, emotional, and situational directness of singing voices as they escape the confines of everyday life. Yet, as this book discovers, the very nature of utopia is paradoxical, fraught with undercurrents of nostalgia, melancholy, and the perpetual threat of the dystopian. Singing Utopia listens across these fault lines in our understanding of utopia and asks what it means for a musical to give voice to an imagined world which is always a contradiction in terms. Who gets to inhabit such a world? Who is excluded? How can we locate utopia in musical theatre voices, and what might be the consequences when its complexities are exposed?

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January 2, 2025

How To Get An Agent for Acting & Voice Over

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Free Download Kate McClanaghan, "How To Get An Agent for Acting & Voice Over"
English | ASIN : B00GZYL90U | 2013 | 65 pages | EPUB | 1212 KB
Far too often the primary obstacle standing in the way of working with any regularity is whether or not you’ve managed to get an agent. Especially an agent who has access to the work you’re best suited to land for voice overs and various acting jobs.

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January 1, 2025

Pedagogies of With-ness Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency

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Free Download Linda Hogg, "Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency"
English | ISBN: 1975503082 | 2020 | 220 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways? Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity, pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of

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December 25, 2024

Voice Therapy A Psychotherapeutic Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior

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Free Download Robert W. Firestone, "Voice Therapy: A Psychotherapeutic Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior"
English | ISBN: 0967668433 | | 296 pages | EPUB | 377 KB
This work provides clinicians with a detailed description of Voice Therapy, a cognitive/affective/behavioral technique developed by Dr. Firestone that can be used to elicit and bring to the foreground negative thought patterns antithetical to the self and cynical toward others.

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