Storytelling in Jazz and Musicality in Theatre

Name: Storytelling in Jazz and Musicality in Theatre
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Art forms tend to mirror themselves in each other. In order to understand literature and fine arts better, we often turn to music, speaking of the \u2018tone\u2019 in a book and of the \u2018rhythm\u2019 in a painting. In attempts to understand music better, we turn instead to the narrative arts, speaking of the \u2018story\u2019 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 wh.