B.J. Abraham: character voices
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| Type: | Video recordings | Moving images |
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| Title: | B.J. Abraham: character voices |
| Date: | 2002-2006 |
| Description: | Video recording of an interview with Georgia storyteller B. J. Abraham in which she demonstrates how she assumes different characters by using different voices when she's telling a story. She sits in a high-backed wooden rocking chair placed on a porch. She faces forward. She first states that she has a voice she uses when she is telling a story from a witch's point of view. She also notes that she can impersonate children and the elderly. She then demonstrates the voice she uses when impersonating an elderly woman. |
| Subjects: | Storytelling--Georgia | Nonverbal communication--Georgia | Expression--Georgia | Women--Georgia | Storytellers--Georgia | Women storytellers--Georgia | Porches--Georgia | Chairs--Georgia | Rocking chairs--Georgia | Folklore--Performance | Storytellers--Interviews | Speech | Witches--Parodies, imitations, etc. | Older people--Parodies, imitations, etc. | Children--Parodies, imitations, etc. | Abraham, B. J. |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia | Sanders, Darby Carl |
| Rights and Usage: | Video by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia. |
| Related Materials: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-515 | Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia | System requirements: QuickTime version 7.1 or higher is required to view object. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-1563 |
| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |