The Accent Handbook: A Practical Guide to Learning Accents
Autor Jessica Hammett, Lottie Williams-Burrellen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2024
The Accent Handbook is a novel approach to accent-learning, providing a practical, digestible and customisable way of learning any accent of your choosing.
Drawing on the authors' extensive experience coaching students and leading stage and screen actors, the book offers more than 200 empowering exercises to actively explore and hone accent features.
You can dip in and out or go from cover to cover, depending on your aims, what you're learning or how much time you have.
The book is accompanied by a wide-ranging and diverse library of contemporary accent recordings from across the globe. Uniquely, it also offers a guide to finding accent samples and getting more out of your listening.
A section devoted to accent and acting delves into the powerful interplay between dialect, character and performance. Approachable and encouraging, this book is an essential companion to keep by your side as you take on an accent, from first listen to performance.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350243323
ISBN-10: 1350243329
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 17 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 164 x 236 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350243329
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 17 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 164 x 236 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction
What is an accent?
Accent vs dialect
What are accents composed of?
Accent and identity
Accent is more than just geography
Accent bias
Why this book?
How to use this book
Springboard
Part A Speech
Your own speech anatomy
The vocal tract
The articulators
Jaw
Lips
Tongue
Soft palate
Part B Accent
Part C Acting
Accent and script
Approaching text
Introducing accent
Accent and character
Accent and situation
Accent and situation for character
Accent and situation for actor
Accent and situation for character
Part D Troubleshooting
Appendix A: Accent recordings
Appendix B: Recording material
Appendix C: Nonsense passage
Appendix D: Vowel spelling guide
Notes
Bibliography
Index
What is an accent?
Accent vs dialect
What are accents composed of?
Accent and identity
Accent is more than just geography
Accent bias
Why this book?
How to use this book
Springboard
Part A Speech
Your own speech anatomy
The vocal tract
The articulators
Jaw
Lips
Tongue
Soft palate
Part B Accent
Part C Acting
Accent and script
Approaching text
Introducing accent
Accent and character
Accent and situation
Accent and situation for character
Accent and situation for actor
Accent and situation for character
Part D Troubleshooting
Appendix A: Accent recordings
Appendix B: Recording material
Appendix C: Nonsense passage
Appendix D: Vowel spelling guide
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
In The Accent Handbook Lottie Williams-Burrell and Jessica Hammett offer a unique, very accessible, and fun approach to exploring the sounds of speech and the acquisition of accents. This book will prove invaluable to any actor, or student of acting, interested in discovering practical approaches to accent acquisition, and will also be of interest to voice teachers wishing to specialize in accent work with student or professional performers.
The step by step approach laid out here outlines all of the elements that need to be explored in order to acquire or to teach an accent. In accessible ways, this book guides the user through a series of simple, practical steps that will enable anyone to identify the key elements of any accent, simultaneously enabling the user to familiarize and equip themselves with the skills, imaginative, analytical and physiological that make it possible to approach and inhabit other accents.
This is a remarkable resource. A source of inspiration and support for any actor taking on an accent.
Useful and insightful . Provides a detailed template which will help you to master any accent which you, the actor, might need . There's an enormous amount here for drama teachers who might use some of these exercises in class and will find helpful information at every level from forming a single sound to applying the learning to a script.
The step by step approach laid out here outlines all of the elements that need to be explored in order to acquire or to teach an accent. In accessible ways, this book guides the user through a series of simple, practical steps that will enable anyone to identify the key elements of any accent, simultaneously enabling the user to familiarize and equip themselves with the skills, imaginative, analytical and physiological that make it possible to approach and inhabit other accents.
This is a remarkable resource. A source of inspiration and support for any actor taking on an accent.
Useful and insightful . Provides a detailed template which will help you to master any accent which you, the actor, might need . There's an enormous amount here for drama teachers who might use some of these exercises in class and will find helpful information at every level from forming a single sound to applying the learning to a script.