Popular Singing and Style

This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods, and demonstrates how these methods can be used to create a flexible and unique sound. This updated and thoroughly revised edition features a new chapter on training for popular singing, which incorporates recent movements in teaching the discipline across the globe, taking into account recent developments in the area. The book also features a new section on 'bridging' - ie. using all the technical elements outlined in the book to help the singer find their own particular expressive style to inspire more playfulness and creativity, both for the individual singer and for the teacher in practice and performance.

Donna Soto-Morettini is currently Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, having previously served as Head of Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK; founding Head of Acting & Dance at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK; and as Director of Drama, Head of Musical Theatre, and Director of International Development for the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, UK. She has worked extensively in television, both as a casting director and performance coach, with credits including, ITV's Superstar, Popstar to Operastar, and All Star Musicals; BBC's The Voice, The Dare, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, Any Dream Will Do, Over the Rainbow, I'd Do Anything and Superstar. She has published extensively with Bloomsbury including two editions of Popular Singing and Style, Mastering the Audition, Mastering the Shakespeare Audition and My Character Wouldn't Do That.

Acknowledgements Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. Cultivating Style 2. Anatomy and Sound 3. The Complementary Elements of Style 4. Blues, Gospel, Jazz and What Came After 5. Practice, Performance, Artistry and Finding Your Own Style Appendix A Index