| Description |
x, 179 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
In Liveness, Philip Auslander 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? |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 163-172) and index |
| Subject |
Entertainers.
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Mass media and the arts.
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Music -- Performance.
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Performing arts -- Social aspects.
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Rock music -- Performance.
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Rock music -- Performances.
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Trials.
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| Author |
EBSCOHost
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| LC no. |
98043440 |
| ISBN |
0415196892 (hbk.) |
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0415196906 (paperback) |
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