'Have You a Happy Voice?': Women's Voices and the Talkie Revolution in Britain 1929–1932. Issue 2 (December 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Have You a Happy Voice?': Women's Voices and the Talkie Revolution in Britain 1929–1932. Issue 2 (December 2018)
- Main Title:
- 'Have You a Happy Voice?'
- Authors:
- Porter, Laraine
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The arrival of sound cinema in Britain created a vogue for particular kinds of voices and the quest for the elusive 'talkie' voice. The new recording technology favoured deeper, more resonant male voices while women's voices in the higher register did not record so well. This problem particularly affected British female stars not previously stage-trained in voice projection or those like Mabel Poulton with pronounced accents or voices that did not match their silent screen images. Many young women stars had been cast for their looks and glamour while older female character actors who had graduated in the theatre fared much better during the transition to sound. This article examines the opprobrium directed at the female voice in the 1920s, from early BBC broadcasting to the perceived dissonance between the visual images of female stars in silent cinema and how they sounded in the talkies.
- Is Part Of:
- Music, sound and the moving image. Volume 12:Issue 2(2018)
- Journal:
- Music, sound and the moving image
- Issue:
- Volume 12:Issue 2(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 12, Issue 2 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0012-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 141
- Page End:
- 169
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12
- Subjects:
- Sound -- Periodicals
Motion picture music -- Periodicals
Television music -- Periodicals
Computer game music -- Periodicals
Mixed media (Music) -- Periodicals
Digital art -- Music -- Periodicals
778.5344 - Journal URLs:
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http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121629/ ↗
http://www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=1753-0768 ↗
http://www.msmi.org.uk/default.aspx?content=Homepage ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3828/msmi.2018.9 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1753-0768
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