Owning Our Voices

<p><em>Owning Our Voices</em> offers a unique first-hand account of working within the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition of extended voice work by Margaret Pikes an acclaimed voice teacher and founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre.</p><p>This dynamic publication fuses Pikes’ personal account of her own vocal journey as a woman within this at times male-dominated tradition alongside an overview of her particular pedagogical approach to voice work and is accompanied by digital footage of Pikes at work in the studio with artist-collaborators and written descriptions of scenarios for teaching. For the first time Margaret Pikes’ uniquely holistic approach to developing the expressive voice through sounding<b> </b>speech song and movement has been documented in text and on film offering readers an introduction to both the philosophy and the practice of Wolfsohn-Hart voice work. </p><p>Owning Our Voices is a vital book for scholars and students of voice studies and practitioners of vocal performance: it represents a synthesis of a life’s work exploring the expressive potential of the human voice illuminating an important lineage of vocal training which remains influential to this day. </p>