Village voice its very voicey5/4/2023 The Voice was a cultural necessity for decades, a breeding ground for generations of passionate and relentless journalists, critics, and writers, where they could hone their chops, flex their intellects, dig deep and deeper still into acts both heroic and criminal, whether civic or aesthetic. As its title promised, it produced a raucous and joyful chorus that remains a standard by which writerly courage is still measured. Here, some of the Voice’s most singular-Gary Indiana, Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, Vivian Gornick, Melissa Anderson, Robert Christgau, Michael Miller, and Greg Tate-have shared their recollections about what it meant to work at that irreplaceable place.ĪT THIS SUPREMELY SQUALID and depressing bend in our country’s political life, it’s strange to recall what the Village Voice once was to a once great, liberal American city, a city that now competes with London as the world’s biggest money laundry. The late, great Wayne Barrett and other Voice political writers exposed the rich corruption of our town, state, and country, for a readership that actually understood what corruption is, and actually objected to it. In fact, they exposed the metastatic corruption of Donald Trump when he was but a smear of ordure in the real-estate landscape. When I worked there, the Voice had many gorgeously idiosyncratic writers across the board, on film, theater, TV, books, fashion and nightlife, and editors who were true editors, not corporate ventriloquists. I may be wrong about this, but I think everyone at the Voice then had at least some Gramscian notion of cooperatively trying to improve the state of things, whatever else they had on their minds. It’s a different city now, and a different world. ![]() Thirty years ago, Alexander Kluge told me that in the twenty-first century, the computer would eliminate any space and time for reflection. I’m sure he’s no happier about the accuracy of his forecast than I am. But there it is. We were given the almost unheard of freedom to go wherever the subject took us discovery and self-discovery went hand in hand. I WAS WORKING AT THE FRENCH FILM OFFICE, writing a bulletin and newsletter for American journalists about French films, when I first met Andrew Sarris, then the “mainstream” film critic (Jonas Mekas was avant-garde) at the Village Voice. I wrote a piece on the Living Theatre as a kind of audition and got a job as the fourth-string reviewer covering Broadway-the main Voice critics were hanging out in the churches and basements and out-of-the-way venues where off-Broadway flourished and which the paper had practically invented. When Andrew expanded the movie coverage I moved over and began what in effect was a kind of learning-on-the-job graduate school. The Voice was radical, bohemian, leftist but not ideologically pure. Andrew and I as devotees of narrative cinema were the least hip or cutting-edge of Voice writers, but we were still wayward polemicists-he in advancing the still controversial auteur theory and I in taking a feminist slant.īut more than its politics, the Voice during this period (late ’60s, early ’70s) was characterized by two things: the personal, confessional tone of the writing, and the rather nasty habit of writers attacking each other. Headquartered in London, Canada, Voices helps match clients with voice over, music, audio production, and translation professionals in over 160 countries and 100+ languages and dialects.The Back of the Book (Arts), or subfeuds within each category. Since 2005, the biggest and most beloved brands have entrusted Voices to help them find professionals to bring their projects to life. Voices is the world's #1 audio marketplace, with over 2 million registered users. Most Favorited Demo of the Year: Gloriel Taylorīest New Demo of the Year: Allyson Briggsīest Female Voice Actor of the Year: Rachael Westīest Male Voice Actor of the Year: David Kaplanĭocumentaries: Rachael West & Elizabeth Saydah The winners were featured in a social media campaign via Voices' social platforms, and the full list is below: The 2021 Voicey Awards include the Top Five Awards-the "mosts'' and the "bests'' on the platform-and the Category Awards, which serve to highlight voice talent who excelled in specific categories. "We take immense pride in the excellent quality of talent available on our marketplace and hope that these skilled voice actors are proud of their accomplishments, too." ![]() "We're committed to celebrating and recognizing the successes of our talented community of voice actors year-round, but the Voicey Awards are an opportunity to publicly honor some of the top achievers on the Voices platform and acknowledge their passion, hard work, and dedication to their craft," shares David Ciccarelli, Founder and CEO of Voices.
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