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The Performing Life: A Singer's Guide to Survival is the first-hand account of the 35-year career of singer, music professor, and recording artist Sharon Mabry, who draws on personal experience to explore how professional singers survive in the face of personal and professional pressures, exorbitant expectations, illness, and the demands of their public. She details for readers those factors that can change the course of a particular performance or an entire career.

Singing --- Singing and voice culture --- Vocal culture --- Music --- Beatboxing --- Throat singing --- Vocational guidance. --- Performance

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Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and '90s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.

Opera --- Singing --- Opéra --- Chant --- History --- Histoire --- Opéra --- Singing and voice culture --- Vocal culture --- Music --- Beatboxing --- Throat singing --- Performance

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"The Performative Power of Vocality offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Conventional treatment of voice in theatre and performance studies too often regards it as a subcategory of actor training, associated with the established methods that have shaped voice pedagogy within Western theatre schools, conservatories, and universities. This monograph significantly deviates from these dominant models through its investigation of the non-discursive, material, and affective efficacy of vocality, with a focus on orally transmitted vocal traditions. Drawing from her performance training, research collaborations, and commitment to cultural diversity, Magnat proposes a dialogical approach to vocality. Inclusive of established, current, and emerging research perspectives, this approach sheds light on the role of vocality as a vital source of embodied knowledge, creativity, and well-being grounded in process, practice, and place, as well as a form of social and political agency. An excellent resource for qualitative researchers, artist-scholars, and activists seeking to legitimize the cognitive potential of vocal practice and decolonize dominant approaches to voice pedagogy, The Performative Power of Vocality opens up new avenues of understanding across Indigenous and Western philosophy, performance studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound and voice studies, anthropology, sociology, phenomenology, cognitive science, physics, ecology, and biomedicine"--

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This book examines in detail the use of the authentic voice, highlighting its virtuosity, healing potency, and importance to well-being. It demonstrates the powerful impact of the voice, using clinical examples from mental health, medical, and special education settings. The book demonstrates how the potentials of using voice in music therapy is not limited to singing songs but also includes sighing, crying, screaming, groaning, humming, laughing, lamenting, and natural forms of singing as human expressions in different cultural traditions. The book integrates emotional, relational, cognitive,

Music therapy. --- Singing --- Singing and voice culture --- Vocal culture --- Music --- Beatboxing --- Throat singing --- Musical therapy --- Musicotherapy --- Therapeutics --- Psychotherapy and music --- Psychological aspects. --- Performance --- Therapeutic use

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The voice is the most powerful and widely used instrument in music therapy. This book demonstrates the enormous possibilities for personal change and growth using a new, voice-based model of psychotherapy where the sounds of the voice are expressed, listened to and interpreted in order to access unconscious aspects of the self and retrieve memories, images and feelings from the past.

Singing --- Voice --- Psychotherapy and music. --- Music and psychotherapy --- Music --- Music therapy --- Speaking --- Human sounds --- Language and languages --- Throat --- Diaphragm --- Elocution --- Larynx --- Speech --- Singing and voice culture --- Vocal culture --- Beatboxing --- Throat singing --- Therapeutic use. --- Physiological aspects --- Performance --- Fysiotherapie --- Muziektherapie