Description: In The Right to Speak, renowned voice teacher Patsy Rodenburg teaches you how to meet any speaking challenge with total self-assurance. Rodenburg has trained thousands of actors, singers, media personalities, lawyers, politicians, business people, teachers and students in the art of using their voice fully and expressively without fear. She has taught them how to breathe, how to support their breath, how to stretch their voice to meet any vocal effort and how to have total confidence in whatever they say--"the right to speak."
Customer Reviews
Review Summary: Worth every word!
Date: 2007-09-28
Details: Unfortunately, some of the reviews here don't do this book fair justice. Patsy Rodenburg is quite easily one of the most inspiring and brilliant teachers alive today. Her writing is concise, powerful, accessible, and practical, amongst many other things. Don't know what the "psycho-babble" review was all about, but Patsy simply teaches how to find the individual habitual tensions that we all carry day to day and how to release them so one can be the most powerful communicator possible. She lays out a perfect system for how to find the tensions and how to release them. This book is the most accessible to all people, no matter the career, and shouldn't be passed up. The book affords infinite insight, benefits, and training toward the extraordinary vocal power that everyone has at their disposal. Patsy is a brilliant teacher, in person she is a million times more amazing than her books will ever show, but her written works are certainly a fabulous place to start.
Review Summary: a mess
Date: 2004-05-04
Details: A lot of gobbledy gook. Sounds like the author wants to be a therapist. 3/4 of the book is psycho babble. Exercises are not helpful. A waste of money.
Review Summary: round and round
Date: 2001-01-26
Details: I was looking for a book which would give me several practical exercises to help improve the quality of my voice. I found the book poorly organized and the exercises do not come until 3/4 of the way through the book. It is not that clear which exercises to start with and the exercises refer back to philisophical points made in the first 180 pages. I did not want to have to wade through pages and pages of discussion about the voice and simply wanted a "how to."
This book is good if you are very interested in the subject of voice training and want to spend a lot of time thinking and reading about the voice. The exercises make up only one chapter, and there are not diagrams, or pictures for learners who are more visually oriented.
Review Summary: This makes complete sense of the voice.
Date: 1999-10-23
Details: I have been working in the field of voice training for nearly 4 years now. This book remains a constant companion of mine which I have read and re-read. I strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in developing their own vocal freedom.
Once you have read The Right To Speak you will find it very difficult to ever listen to or view speech in quite the same light again.
If you know anyone who still believes that the only way to speak is to "speak properly", you need to buy them a copy of this book right away. The myth of the correct voice is truly exploded by Rodenburg as she "unpacks the box" in this book.
Read this book and discover both your expressive voice and your expressive self.
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