Bøger af Philip Auslander

Addresses what may be the single most important question facing various kinds of performance: What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? This title offers insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all.

Musical performance is a social interaction between musicians and their audiences, appealing as much to the eye as to the ear. In In Concert Philip Auslander addresses not only the visual means by which musicians engage their audiences through costume and physical gesture, but also spectacular aspects of performance such as light shows.

Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience's experience of it

Situates the glam rock phenomenon historically and examines it as a set of performance strategies. This book explores the ways in which glam rock, while celebrating the showmanship of 1950s rock and roll, began to undermine rock's adherence to the ideology of authenticity in the late 1960s.

This collection of essays provides a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.