The Voice Book: Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice | Date: 28 April 2011, 08:44
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The Voice Book: Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice
By Kate DeVore, Starr Cookman
* Publisher: Chicago Review Press
* Number Of Pages: 208
* Publication Date: 2009-07-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1556528299
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781556528293
Product Description:
More than 30 million Americans rely on their voices for their jobs--from teachers, religious leaders, and entertainers to lawyers, executives, salespeople, and doctors. A controlled voice increases self-confidence and enhances charisma, approachability, and trustworthiness. Yet an astounding 30 percent of professionals develop preventable vocal problems that could ruin their careers. And most do not know that both the quality and tone of one’s voice can be changed.
The Voice Book: Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice is a one-of-a-kind reference that will save and improve your voice, your job, and your personal life. With dozens of vocal exercises and a detailed guide to the anatomy and physiology of voice, the book covers the full range of vocal health, from protecting against hoarseness and laryngitis to expanding speaking range and enhancing voice tone and quality.
Illustrations, photographs, FAQs, and an accompanying CD make The Voice Book the first vocal self-help book of its kind and a must-read for anyone who wants a dependable, strong, and engaging voice.
Summary: a practical book, and a good reference
Rating: 4
I really appreciate the format of this book, which is easy to reference and makes a great addition to my library. I teach movement and physical theatre, and even though I have been doing this work for many years, I felt this book gave me a lot of clarity about voice and the body. I found it easy to incorporate this material into the material that I teach. I recently lead a workshop for dancers who wanted to improve their stage voices and this book was a valuable resource for me.
Interestingly, I choose the book for a teaching reference, but it has had a great influence on me personally. I am noticing that the author's approach to voice is helping me to be a better teacher... I am speaking more clearly to my students, and I am feeling a better and more confident embodied presence when I am speaking to a large group. This is not something that comes easily to me so I have enjoyed the insight and experience these author's have shared here. Highly recommended.
Summary: Finally! A Book on the Voice that is for Everyone!
Rating: 5
As a singing voice teacher of primarily classical musicians, I am thrilled to have such a unique book! I have had the pleasure of working with both Kate and Starr and find their professional knowledge and ebullient personalities bring a much-needed exuberance to an often complex and dry subject. In other words, with sections like "Free Your Neck and the Rest Will Follow", "True or False Vocal Folds?" and "You've Got the Moves", the authors have created a fun, easy-to-read text that is useful to all users of voice.
The wonderful exercises in the book, many of which I used with Kate in both speaking and singing voice coaching, are clearly explained, both in reading and via the accompanying CD, and when used as directed, will definitely improve one's vocal quality.
As a "voice nerd", I'm particularly pleased with the final chapter that gives additional details on technical information regarding vocal production. This chapter also covers a bit on the role of the voice teacher as a part of a voice care team; an essential part of a successful university vocal program.
I highly recommend this book for all professional voice users regardless of profession. I will be using this text in my undergraduate vocal pedagogy course next year in order to prepare our voice students to be better teachers and voice users.
Summary: Straightforward and Readable, but Thorough
Rating: 5
I teach voice & speech on the university level and with private students in all walks of life, and this is a great book for both! I appreciate how accessible the information is for some of my private clients (everything from actors to lawyers to teachers). One of the issues I have with most of the voice books out there is that they're so dry or technical that it feels like I'm punishing my clients/students to recommend a text. This one is a very easy and enjoyable read.
The great balance, though, is that it's very thorough with the basic ideas that voice users need to know, but I LOVE the extra chapter at the end: "Extra Technical Information." They made it all very usable, and then end it with all of the technical stuff that my students can get into if they want it.
I'm also blown away by how cheap it is with the CD included... This is a great book for people to start with.
Summary: A voice book that actually delivers
Rating: 5
As it turns out "The Voice Book" is the book I've always been looking for, but never knew it. Since much of my career involves public speaking, I can't tell you how often a dry scratchy throat has made me want to pack it in early. If I had access to Kate DeVore and Starr Cookman's advice I could have saved myself many hours of hoarseness.
With commonsense, expertise and even humor, DeVore and Cookman cover every aspect of voice care, from tips on vocal strengthening to the science of why our vocal cords behave the way they do. There's more truly usable stuff here than in any other source I've come across. Included are numerous illustrations, exercises and (my favorite) comprehensive FAQ's. The audio CD included is the perfect supplement to the text.
"The Voice Book" definitely follows through on its subtitle, "Easy exercises and advice for anyone who speaks or sings for a living." I'm already noticing a difference.
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