The "Storylistening" Trance Experience

This article addresses the experience of people who listen to stories, with particular attention to the trancelike quality of that experience. Interviews and observations at organized storytelling events provide the data, which are analyzed for content and theme. The results show that people listeni...

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Published in:The Journal of American folklore 2000-07, Vol.113 (449), p.287-304
Main Author: Sturm, Brian W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Audiences
Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore
Consciousness
Discriminative listening
Emotional expression
Ethnic Studies
Ethnology
Folklore
Hypnosis
Influences
Interviews
Listening
Literary characters
Memory
Motor ability
Narrative plot
Oral tradition
Oral/folk literature
Perceptual distortion
Personal experiences
Physiology
Realism
Spectator
Storytellers
Storytelling
Subconscious
System theory
Tarts
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Summary:This article addresses the experience of people who listen to stories, with particular attention to the trancelike quality of that experience. Interviews and observations at organized storytelling events provide the data, which are analyzed for content and theme. The results show that people listening to stories often do enter a qualitatively different state of consciousness. This article explores the character of and influences on this state and presents a theoretical model.
ISSN:0021-8715
1535-1882
DOI:10.2307/542104