Liveness : performance in a mediatized culture / Philip Auslander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auslander, Philip, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Social aspects.

Performing arts.

Music--Performance.

Music.

Trials.

Physical Description:

xiii, 208 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, [2008]

Summary:

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? -- Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander's ground-breaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all. In this new edition, the author thoroughly updates his provocative argument to take into account new digital and media technologies, and cultural, social and legal developments. In tackling some of the last great shibboleths surrounding the high cultural status of the live event, this book will continue to shape discussion and to provoke lively debate on a crucial artistic dilemma: what is live performance and what can it mean to us now?

Contents:

1 Introduction: "an orchid in the land of technology" 1

2 Live performance in a mediatized culture 10

Teevee's playhouse 11

Is it live, or ...? 24

Against ontology 43

Got live if you want it 63

3 Tryin' to make it real: live performance, simulation, and the discourse of authenticity in rock culture 73

Rock culture and the discourse of authenticity 74

Seeing is believing 85

I want my MTV 97

Panic Clapton 107

4 Legally live: law, performance, memory 128

Teevee's courthouse, or the resistible rise of the videotape trial 130

You don't own me: performance as intellectual property 147

The Gollum problem 168

Law and remembrance 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and index.

ISBN:

9780415773522

0415773520

9780415773539

0415773539

9780203938133

0203938135

OCLC:

144770575