La resignificación del contador de historias en la sociedad posmoderna una investigación sobre narradores orales en el ámbito de Madrid

Abstract

Social and Cultural Anthropology has paid great attention to tales, stories, legends, myths... These "artifacts" are an intangible cultural asset, and they can be thoroughly analyzed as we can get them in documentary form. On what happens when stories are told live, as it is a fleeting event, available studies are reasonably fewer. About the professional storyteller figure and his relationship with the storytelling practice in front of a present audience, studies are remarkably few. I am not aware of any doctoral study on modern professional storytellers in this 21st century from the Social Sciences point of view, their relationship with their profession and the artistic aspects that surround it (repertoire, creative process, staging, performance...). That is why this research is relevant. My general objective is to analyze the changes and transformations that occur around the modern storytellers emergence as stage professionals. My specific objectives are: to analyze the emergence process of the modern professional storyteller; to analyze whether modern professional storytelling resignifies the stories told; to place modern professional storytelling within the set of contemporary manifestations of scenic orality; analyze whether modern scenic storytelling can be considered as an artistic performing genre and its professionals as artists; to identify if ritual aspect are manifested in storytelling performances and how they appear...