Abstract

Using a historic lineage of the major movements and artists of art and philosophy in Western culture (such as those associated with modernism and postmodernism) and beginning with the works of Jerzy Grotowski, the study attempts to reframe two seemingly dichotomous styles of vocal training, I argue the vocal training styles that Kristin Linklater and Patsy Rodenburg outline, vocal skill and freedom, can be synthesized into a coherent artistic approach to vocal training and performance despite their contradictory elements. In addition to an analysis of primary sources from Grotowski, Rodenburg, and Linklater, the study includes an analysis of interviews conducted with Linklater and four professional/academic vocal performance artists and is further supported by a historical analysis using secondary sources concerning major artists and philosophers within the movements of modernism and postmodernism. It argues that if the vocal freedom and skill approaches to vocal training/performance can be seen to reflect the major artistic and philosophic movements they were born from, so too can be said of the personal approaches to vocal training/performance as described in interviews with professionals and academics within the field. Defining the approach contemporary academics take with the term vocal liberty, the study concludes by suggesting the vocal liberty style reflects the predominant artistic and philosophic movement of Western culture today — metamodernism. The study does not aim to quantify the specifics of a fully developed metamodern vocal training program regimen, instead describing the term generally by outlining its ideological foundation as compared to vocal skill and freedom.

Advisor

Huston-Findley, Shirley

Department

Theatre and Dance

Disciplines

Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory

Publication Date

2017

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis

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