Expressive Voice Culture
Expressive Voice Culture

Author: Jessie Eldridge Southwick

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1877527300

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The Emerson System treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling. This book sets forth methods and principles based upon this idea, with a fuller elaboration of the relation of technique to expression. By concentration of every distinctive phase, synthesized by a vital motive aroused by the message spoken, the voice becomes musical, forceful, clear, vibrant in the fulfilment of its natural function. The voice is the most potent influence of expression, the winged messenger between soul and soul.

Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System
Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System

Author: Jessie Eldridge Southwick

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13:

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'Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System' is a non-fiction book written by Jessie Eldridge Southwick, who was an American elocutionist, intended to teach individuals how to speak using The Emerson System. It is said that the system treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling. This treatise is a setting forth of methods and principles based upon this idea with a fuller elaboration of the relation of technique to expression.

Embodied Voices
Embodied Voices

Author: Leslie C. Dunn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780521585835

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As a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as sexual and cultural power. Embodied Voices explores cultural manifestations of female vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body and sexual difference. The fourteen essays collected here examine a wide spectrum of discourses, including myth, literature, music, film, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Though diverse in their critical approaches, the essays are united in their attempt to articulate the compelling yet problematic intersections of gender, voice, and embodiment as they have shaped the textual representation of women and women's self-expression in performance.

Psycho Vox; or, The Emerson System of Voice Culture
Psycho Vox; or, The Emerson System of Voice Culture

Author: Charles Wesley Emerson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13:

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This work aims to familiarize the reader with the art of speaking in public eloquently and persuasively. It considers the voice as the natural reporter of a person presenting the connection of the correct use of the voice to the nervous system and health. This unique volume contains exercises for obtaining freedom and the right direction of tone and for establishing the proper habits in using the voice. Charles Wesley Emerson was the founder first president of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and the author of several books dealing with oratory Contents include: Voice, the Natural Reporter of the Individual. Organs that Produce, Reinforce, and Give Resonant Forms to the Voice. Relation of the Proper Use of the Voice to Health. Relation of the Proper Use of the Voice to the Nervous System. Relation of Pitch to Resonance. Methods for Cultivating the Voice. Exercises. Rhythm. Quality of Voice. Vocal Technique. Index.