Liveness : performance in a mediatized culture / Philip Auslander.

By:

Auslander, Philip, 1956- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999Description: 179 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415196892
9780415196895
0415196906
9780415196901

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.09730904 21

LOC classification:

PN1590.S6 A88 1999

Contents:

Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: "An Orchid in the Land of Technology" -- 2. Live performance in a mediatized culture -- Teevee's playhouse -- Is it live, or...? -- Against ontology -- Got live if you want it -- 3. Tryin' to make it real: live performance, simulation, and the discourse of authenticity in rock culture -- Rock culture and the discourse of authenticity -- Seeing is believing -- I want my MTV -- Panic Clapton -- 4. Legally live: law, performance, memory -- Teevee's courthouse, or the resistible rise of the videotape trial -- You don't own me: performance and copyright -- Law and remembrance -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: "Is it live or is it Memorex? In his provocative new book, performance critic Philip Auslander explores live performance and asks what relevance it has in contemporary culture dominated by mass media. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Society begins with an overview of live performance and reveals that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many, like concerts and sporting events that feature jumbo video screens, are hardly live at all. Auslander offers a way of understanding the history of this development based on an analysis of the relationship between early television and theatre. Auslander goes on to a detailed analysis of what live performance has meant in rock music culture, arguing that live performance has been devalued here, as it has been in the culture at large. As a comparison, Auslander then considers liveness in the legal arena, for it is the one social realm where live performance has retained much of its traditional value; a live trial iscentral to American jurisprudence. Liveness offers penetrating insight into our shifting relationship with live events and poses important questions about what this means for the future of performance in a media-saturated culture."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index.

"Is it live or is it Memorex? In his provocative new book, performance critic Philip Auslander explores live performance and asks what relevance it has in contemporary culture dominated by mass media. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Society begins with an overview of live performance and reveals that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many, like concerts and sporting events that feature jumbo video screens, are hardly live at all. Auslander offers a way of understanding the history of this development based on an analysis of the relationship between early television and theatre. Auslander goes on to a detailed analysis of what live performance has meant in rock music culture, arguing that live performance has been devalued here, as it has been in the culture at large. As a comparison, Auslander then considers liveness in the legal arena, for it is the one social realm where live performance has retained much of its traditional value; a live trial iscentral to American jurisprudence. Liveness offers penetrating insight into our shifting relationship with live events and poses important questions about what this means for the future of performance in a media-saturated culture."--Publisher description.

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