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VASTA Member Book List

The following is a list of books written by VASTA members.

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VASTA Sponsored Books  |  Heightened Text, Verse  |  Pedagogy, Coaching  |  Performance Studies  |  Singing  |  Speech, Phonetics, Accent/Dialect  |  Voice and Identity  |  Voice and Speech Science, Vocal Health  |  Vocal Production, Voice-Related Movement Studies  |  Voice Studies (General)

VASTA Sponsored Books


The Complete Voice and Speech Workout: 74 Exercises for Classroom and Studio Use 

Janet Rodgers

 

The History of Voice Pedagogy: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Training

Rockford Sansom

 

Vocal Traditions: Training in the Performing

Rockford Sansom

 

Voice and Identity

Rockford Sansom

 

Practitioner Research in Voice Studies

Rockford Sansom




Heightened Text, Verse


The Actor and the Text

Cicely Berry

 

Text in Action

Cicely Berry

 

Word Play: A Textual Handbook for Directors and Actors

Cicely Berry

 

Classically Speaking
Patricia Fletcher

 

Tackling Text [and subtext]: A Step-by-Step Guide for Actors

Barbara Houseman

 

Finding Your Voice: A Step-by-Step Guide for Actors

Barbara Houseman

 

Mastering Shakespeare: An Acting Class in Seven Scenes

Scott Kaiser

 

Shakespeare's Wordcraft

Scott Kaiser

 

Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text

Karen Kopryanski and Baron Kelly

 

Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

Kristin Linklater

 

Voicing Shakespeare

Paul Meier

 

The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer

Patsy Rodenburg

 

The Need for Words: Voice and the Text

Patsy Rodenburg

 

Power Presentation: Formal Speech in an Informal World

Patsy Rodenburg

 

Presence: How to Use Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation

Patsy Rodenburg

 

The Right to Speak Working with the Voice

Patsy Rodenburg

 

The Second Circle: Using Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation

Patsy Rodenburg

 

Speaking Shakespeare

Patsy Rodenburg

 

Black Playwrights and Heightened Text When Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf

Jacqueline Springfield


Pedagogy, Coaching


Stanislavsky and Intimacy

Joelle Arp-Dunham

 

Lessons from our Students: Meditations on Performance Pedagogy

Stacey Cabaj and Andrea Odinov

 

The Thought Propels the Sound

Janet Madelle Feindel

 

The Third Space: Body, Voice, and Imagination

Robert Lewis

 

The Voice Coach's Toolkit

Pamela Prather

 

Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices

Christina Shewell and Rockford Sansom

 

Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare

Petronilla Whitfield

 

Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training: Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity

Petronilla Whitfield

 

 

Performance Studies


Acting the Essence - The Performer's Work on The Self

Giuliano Campo

 

Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course

Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera

 

Monologues for Latino/A Actors: A Resource Guide to Contemporary Latino/a Playwrights for Actors and Teachers

Micha Espinosa with José Rivera

 

Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre

Micha Espinosa and Cynthia Santos DeCure

 

Singular Voices-A Particular Class of Women

Janet Feindel

 

Arthur Lessac's Embodied Actor Training

Melissa Hurt

 

Consent in Shakespeare

Artemis Preeshl

 

Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean: Women Speak Truth to Power

Artemis Preeshl 

 

Reframing Acting in the Digital Age: Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy

Artemis Preeshl

 

Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte: Play by Play

Artemis Preeshl

 

Latinx Actor Training

Cynthia Santos DeCure and Micha Espinosa

 

 

Singing


As Far as the Eye Can Sing

Frankie Armstrong with Jenny Pearson

 

The Essentials of CoreSinging: A Joyful Approach to Singing and Voice Pedagogy

Meribeth Dayme, Cynthia Vaughn, and Matthew Hoch

 

A Dictionary for the Modern Singer

Matthew Hoch

 

Latin Lyric Diction Workbook

Cheri Montgomery and Matthew Hoch

 

So You Want to Sing (20 book series)

Matthew Hoch

 

Welcome to Church Music & The Hymnal 1982

Matthew Hoch

 

Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer

Matthew Hoch and Linda Lister

 

The Singing Book 

Cynthia Vaughn, Meribeth Dayme, and Matthew Hoch

 

 

Speech, Phonetics, Accent/Dialect


Lexical Sets for Actors

Eric Armstrong

 

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training

Andrea Caban, Julie Foh, and Jeffrey Parker

 

Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork Guide to Acting in Accent

Andrea Caban, Tyler Seiple, and Philip Thompson

 

Introduction to Speechwork for Actors: An Inclusive Approach

Ron Carlos

 

How to Do Standard English Accents: From Traditional RP to the New 21st-Century Neutral Accent

Jan Haydn Rowles and Edda Sharpe

 

Dialects for the Stage

Evangeline Machlin

 

Speech for the Stage 

Evangeline Machlin

 

Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen

Paul Meier

 

Dialects of the British Isles

Paul Meier

 

Dialects of the United States

Paul Meier

 

African Accents

Beth McGuire

 

Speaking with Skill: An Introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork
Dudley Knight

 

Stage Dialect Studies: A Continuation of the Lessac  Approach to Actor Voice and Speech Training

Barry Kur

 

How To Do Accents (The Actor's Toolkit)

Edda Sharpe and Jan Haydn Rowles

Voice and Identity


Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality

Adi Cabral

 

Well-Tuned Women: Growing Strong Through Voicework

Frankie Armstrong and Jenny Pearson

 

Sounding Bodies Identity, Injustice, and the Voice

Ann Cahill and Christine Hamel

 

Empower Your Voice: For Women in Business, Politics and Life

Rena Cook

 

Training Actors' Voices: Towards an Intercultural/Interdisciplinary Approach

Tara McAllister-Viel

 

Stages of Reckoning

Amy Mihyang Ginther

 

Here's How to Teach Voice and Communication Skills to Transgender Women

Abbie Olszewski, Selah Sullivan, and Adriano Cabral

 

The Woman’s Voice

Patsy Rodenburg


Voice and Speech Science, Vocal Health


Everyday Voice Care: The Lifestyle Guide for Singers and Talkers

Joanna Cazden

 

Manual Therapy for Voice and Swallowing: A Person-Centered Approach

Walt Fritz

 

Essential Lessac: Honoring the Familiar in Body, Mind, Spirit

Arthur Lessac and Deborah Kinghorn

 

Atlas of Laryngoscopy

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Care of the Professional Voice (Parts I and II)

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Choral Pedagogy

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Choral Pedagogy and the Older Singer

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Clinical Assessment of Voice

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Diagnosis and Treatment of Voice Disorders

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Laryngology: Clinical Reference Guide

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Laryngeal Electromyography

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Laryngeal Manifestations of Systemic Diseases

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Obesity and Voice

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Neurolaryngology

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Non-Laryngeal Cancer and Voice

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Professional Voice: The Science and Art of Clinical Care

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Psychology of Voice Disorders

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Reflux Laryngitis and Related Disorders

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Tinnitus Source Readings (1841-1980)

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Treatment of Voice Disorders

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Vocal Health and Pedagogy: Science, Assessment, and Treatment

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Voice Science

Robert T. Sataloff

 

Vocal Health and Science.

Robert T. Sataloff and Ingo Titze

 

Fascinations with the Human Voice

Ingo Titze

 

The Myoelastic-Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation

Ingo Titze

 

Principles of Voice Production

Ingo Titze

 

Vocal Fold Physiology: Frontiers in Basic Science

Ingo Titze

 

Vocal Fold Physiology: Biomechanics, Acoustics, and Phonatory Control

Ingo Titze and Ronald C. Scherer

 

Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation

Ingo Titze and Katherine Verdolini Abbott

 

 

Vocal Production, Voice-Related Movement Studies


Actor Training the Laban Way: An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement

Barbara Adrian

 

The Laban Workbook for Actors: A Practical Training Guide with Video

Katya Bloom, Barbara Adrian, and Tom Casciero

 

Breath in Action

Jane Boston

 

Voice (Readings in Theatre Practice)

Jane Boston

 

Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work - The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski

Giuliano Campo

 

The Voice Book: Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice

Kate DeVore and Starr Cookman

 

The Use and Training of the Human Voice: A Bio-Dynamic Approach to Vocal Life

Arthur Lessac

 

Freeing the Natural Voice

Kristin Linklater       

 

Vocal Yoga: The Joy of Breathing, Singing, and Sounding

Heather Lyle

 

One Voice: Integrating Singing Technique and Theatre Voice Training

Joan Melton with Kenneth Tom

 

Constructing the Holistic Actor: Fitzmaurice Voicework

Michael Morgan

 

Collective Writings on the Lessac Voice and Body Work

Marth Munro, Sean Turner, and Allan Munro

 

Play with Purpose: Lessac Kinesensics in Action

Marth Munro, Sean Turner, and Allan Munro

 

La Liberación de la Voz Natural - El Método Linklater

Antonio Ocampo Guzmán

 

Movement for Actors

Nicole Potter, Barbara Adrian, and Mary Fleischer

 

Acting and Singing with Archetypes

Janet B. Rodgers and Frankie Armstrong

 

 

Voice Studies (General)


Voice: Onstage and Off
Robert Barton and Rocco Dal Vera

 

Voice and the Actor 

Cicely Berry

 

Your Voice and How to Use It

Cicely Berry

 

Verbal Arts Workbook: A Practical Course for Speaking Text

David Carey and Rebecca Clark Carey

 

The Integrated Voice

Sarah Case

 

Voice and the Young Actor: A Workbook and DVD,

Rena Cook 

 

The Vocal Vision: Views on Voice by 24 Leading Teachers, Coaches and Directors

Marion Hampton and Barbara Acker

 

The Performer's Voice

Janet Madelle Feindel

 

The Tongue as a Gateway to Voice, Resonance, Style, and Intelligibility

Angelika Nair


VASTA Members: To add your new book to this list, email rsansom@vasta.org.

Note:
Books on this list must fall within the scope of VASTA. So a novel, for example, would not fall within the scope of this list.


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