Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bjerstedt, Sven

Titel

Storytelling in Jazz and Musicality in Theatre: Through the Mirror

Auflage

1st

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Art forms tend to mirror themselves in each other. In order to better understand literature and fine arts, we often turn to music, speaking of the ‘tone’ in a book or of the ‘rhythm’ in a painting. In attempts to better understand music, we turn instead to the narrative arts, speaking of the ‘story’ of a musical piece. This book focuses on two examples of such conceptual mirror reflexivity: narrativity in jazz music and musicality in spoken theatre. These intermedial metaphors are shown to be significant to the practice and reflection of performing artists through their ability to mediate holistic views of what is considered to be of crucial importance in artistic practice, analysis and education. This exploration opens up possibilities for new theoretical and practical insights with regard to how the borderland between temporal art forms can be conceptualized. The book will be of interest not only to scholars of music and theatre, but also to those who work in the fields of aesthetics, intermedial studies, cognitive linguistics, arts theory, communication theory and cultural studies.