Musical Performance as Storytelling: Memory, European Integration, and the Baltic Youth Philharmonic Оrchestra
Keywords:
performance, storytelling, Baltic Youth Philharmonic, orchestraAbstract
Storytelling has been theorized as a performative, narrative practice, but it has not been employed often as a trope in studies of musical performance. This article outlines a theoretical context for exploring the possibilities of such a conceptual move within musicology by referring to the anthropological and performance studies approaches of Turner and Schechner. Benjamin’s reflection on the storyteller as a narrator of memory and history frames the presentation of a case-study on the Baltic Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.References
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