Owning Our Voices - 9780367133214

Taylor & Francis

Owning Our VoicesVocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition\nAuthor(s): Margaret Pikes, Patrick Campbell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367133214, 978-0367133214\nSynopsis\nOwning Our Voices offers a unique, first-hand account of working within the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition of extended voice work by Margaret Pikes, an acclaimed voice teacher and founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre.\n\nThis dynamic publication fuses Pikes personal account of her own vocal journey as a woman within this, at times, male-dominated tradition, alongside an overview of her particular pedagogical approach to voice work, and is accompanied by digital footage of Pikes at work in the studio with artist-collaborators and written descriptions of scenarios for teaching. For the first time, Margaret Pikes uniquely holistic approach to developing the expressive voice through sounding, speech, song and movement has been documented in text .