Storytelling in Jazz and Musicality in Theatre: Through the Mirror

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Part I. Intermedial Metaphor in the Arts
Chapter 1. Metaphoricity in Arts Discourse
Part II. Musical Storytelling
Chapter 2. Storytelling in Jazz: A Conceptual Challenge
Chapter 3. A History of Jazz Writings
Chapter 4. Interviews with Jazz Improvisers
Chapter 5. Storytelling in Jazz Improvisation: Conclusions
Part III. Theatrical Musicality
Chapter 6. Musicality in Spoken Theatre: A Conceptual Challenge
Chapter 7. A History of Theatre Writings
Chapter 8. Interviews with Actors
Chapter 9. Musicality in Spoken Theatre: Conclusions
Part IV. Through the Mirror
Chapter 10. Intermedial Conceptual Loans

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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 ‘tone’ in a book and of the ‘rhythm’ in a painting. In attempts to understand music better, 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.

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