A chronotopic approach to identity performance in musical numbers

A choreo-musical case study of ‘Rewrite the Stars’ and ‘This Is Me’

Bibliographic Data

ID12700191
AuthorsN Elyamany (0000-0002-3385-194X, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Smart Village, Giza, Egypt, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume22
Issue2
Pages278-296
Publication date2021-02-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-3572 • E-ISSN: 1741-3214
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1470357220974069
OpenAlexW3126196763
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited45

Musical numbers, as viral modes of entertainment, influential forms of visual culture and catalysts of popular discourse are dense with multivariate aesthetic performers, and are interlaced to punctuate the melodramatic narrative texture in advancement of the plot and characterization in musical films. Performing identity through dancing bodies has been the subject of several film, music, culture, performance and communication research endeavours yet has rarely been explored from multimodal discourse analysis perspectives. To examine the ‘resilient identities’ underlying performances, the article adopts an eclectic approach informed by the Bakhtinian chronotope with regard to two numbers drawn from a recent American musical film in order to pinpoint: (a) the full repertoire of multimodal resources of narrative agency and identity performance; (b) the emotional experiences evoked by the musical numbers; and (c) the social practices that constitute, maintain and resist social realities and identities. The unconventional approach to the analysis of the musical numbers is what makes the current research project stand out among interdisciplinary studies of musical discourse

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Chronotope · Entertainment · Identity (music · Linguistics · Musical · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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