The Human Voice
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 2006
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-7475-7649-5 (ISBN)
Description
For most people, the voice is just something that happens when they open their mouths, it's taken for granted, something that people claim never to have given a second thought. But our ability to communicate is crucially dependent on the voice and the voice lies at the heart of what it is to be human.
Anne Karpf's book aims to establish a sense of the importance of the human voice and to thoroughly investigate its physiological, social, psychological, emotional and cultural history and significance. In examining the voice in this way Anne Karpf has written a fascinatingly diverse book, and it is as she follows the story of the voice from the role it plays in bonding mothers and babies, through the evocative power of famous voices, to the fears that modern technology may send the voice into decline that we gain great insight into communication and human life.
Anne Karpf's book aims to establish a sense of the importance of the human voice and to thoroughly investigate its physiological, social, psychological, emotional and cultural history and significance. In examining the voice in this way Anne Karpf has written a fascinatingly diverse book, and it is as she follows the story of the voice from the role it plays in bonding mothers and babies, through the evocative power of famous voices, to the fears that modern technology may send the voice into decline that we gain great insight into communication and human life.
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PRAISE FOR 'THE WAR AFTER' 'A vibrantly lively memoir about growing up in a Holocaust home... At times brutally sad, THE WAR AFTER is also a rich and funny exploration of the struggle between a child and her parents' Independent on Sunday 'Fascinating and revealing' Literary Review 'Anne Karpf is a skilled storyteller, moving naturally between her own history and that of her parents in a way that neither intrudes nor distorts' Times Literary SupplementMore details
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Anne Karpf is a writer, sociologist and award-winning journalist. Born in London to Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors, she studied at Oxford, and then worked in BBC Television. She has been a contributing editor to Cosmopolitan, a book reviewer for The Times, and for seven years was radio critic of the Guardian, where she now writes a weekly column for the Saturday 'Family' supplement. After gaining a postgraduate degree in the Sociology of Health and Illness, she taught medical students at London University. She broadcasts on radio and television, and teaches at London Metroplitan University. She lives in London.