Accent Handbook

A Practical Guide to Learning Accents

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvJessica Hammett,Lottie Williams-Burrell,UK) Hammett, Jessica (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts,UK) Williams-Burrell, Lottie (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

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Need to learn an accent for an audition? Got the part but can’t quite grasp the sounds? Want to expand your repertoire?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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-11-14
Mått156 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt341 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350243330

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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 anatomyThe vocal tract The articulators Jaw Lips Tongue Soft palatePart 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

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.