Episode Details

Joining Alexa today is Jo Sear, a rock, pop and soul singer, and teacher of CCM singing styles. Jo completed her MA in Voice Pedagogy through the Voice Study Centre and will soon begin her PhD at The Royal Northern College of Music. She’s here to discuss teaching popular music styles, the topic of her recently published final MA dissertation project.

‘The whole basis of popular music is authenticity’ 

RELEVANT LINKS & MENTIONS

• Voice Study Centre
• British Voice Association
• The Journal of Popular Music Education
• Modern Vocal Pedagogy: Investigating a potential curricular framework for training popular music singing teachers, Joanna Sear
• Jeanie LoVetri
• Teaching Contemporary Singing; Voice Teacher Influencer; Beginning Singing, John Henny
• Jo Thompson
• Yvie Burnett
• Dr Matt Edwards
• Vocal Workouts for the Contemporary Singer, Ann Peckham
• Journal of Voice
• Heidi Moss Erickson
• The Musician’s Mind Teaching, Learning and Performance in the Age of Brain Science by Lynn Helding et al
• Interview with Dr Trineice Robinson-Martin How to Nurture a Singer’s Authentic Voice
• A Voice and Beyond podcast
• The Naked Vocalist podcast
• Christina Shewell
• So You Want to Sing…Rock and Roll, Matthew Edwards and NATs
• The Art of Singing Onstage and in the Studio, Jennifer Hamady

ABOUT THE GUEST 

Jo has been singing rock, pop and soul music all her life singing lead and backing vocals in a wide variety of rock, soul and blues bands, working as a session singer and taking part in many stage productions, including several at the London Palladium. Her current band is Soul Enforcement Bureau, an 8-piece professional soul band.

Jo has been teaching CCM singing styles exclusively for over 17 years, working both privately and within secondary and dance schools. She has trained in many different areas of voice study, including the Estill Model, advanced anatomy and voice acoustics, and has taught a wide range of students, from amateurs to professionals. She completed her MA in Voice Pedagogy with Distinction in April 2021 and is a passionate advocate of the importance of training more rock/pop teachers and conducting more contemporary voice research. Her research-based curriculum outline for training Popular Music singing teachers has recently been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Popular Music Education.

Guest Website: popupvocaltraining.co.uk

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