Download ~ Playing It By Ear by Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Playing It By Ear
- Author : Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.
- Release Date : January 08, 2010
- Genre: Performing Arts,Books,Arts & Entertainment,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2222 KB
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The author of All the Kings Horses and All the Kings Men: Love, Alienation, and "Reconciliation in a Big, BIG Mormon Family (Xlibris, 2000) and the controversial Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2004) is at it again. American historian by day and Canadian jazz musician and playwright by night, Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. has also written five original jazz-musicals. A word of explanation is required. These five plays, four of which have been tested on stage and not found wanting, do not obey many of the rules of so-called dramaturgy. The playwright has no real right or claim to the office or title of playwright. Having the good fortune to be able to call upon the help of a wide array of extremely talented musicians and actors, he brought forth a relatively new type of theatrical expression and experiencea jazz and theatre synthesis that had an important historical, social justice, intellectual/musical, autobiographical, and monologue angles. Originally, the idea was for a history professor who played jazz to use the stage to convey a message of some historical importance, augmented by music, as an experiment to see whether the theatre was not a better medium than the classroom. There is no doubting the important fact that the public cast their vote . . . and quite decidedly in the affirmative, despite it all. And so, some record and testament to all the hard work that went into each and every one of these plays seems justified. A memoir of another sort, Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. explores such public events and social issues as the Canadian ice storm of 1998 and the urban-rural divide in Canadian society that it revealed, Louis Armstrongs arrangement and interpretation of Black and Blue and the relationship between racism and domestic abuse hidden between the lines, the end of the nuclear family and death-rattle of patriarchal authority evident at family holiday gatherings, the degree to which the penis as well as the vagina are taboo, and finally, what Forsbergs seven-year trek along the Silk Road (20032010) in search of self understanding and personal renewal would cost himbut also reward him for venturing outside of the box.
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