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Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Second Edition Phili Auslander
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Theodore Gracyk, Rhythm and Noise: An *And a performance of it is not a copy, exactly -- it's not like buying a Harry Potter book or something, where there are millions of identical copies in circulation, because each performance is unique and different. For any disbelievers still out there, I highly recommend a book by Performance Studies professor Philip Auslander entitled Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (Routledge; 1999). About a year ago I was planning my first doctoral seminar at Indiana and ended up assigning these books: Philip Auslander, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. His most recent books are Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (2006) and the second edition of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (2008). In his book Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture , Philip Auslander historically demonstrates that the term ;live ; was never used, in the sense we understand it today, before the invention of cinema . 'The book offers a meticulously developed argument… Highly recommended.' -CHOICE. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Auslander, Philip 'Live Performance in a Mediatized Culture' Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, Second Edition (Routledge, London and New York, 2008 [1999]), pp58-63. 'Auslander writes fascinatingly.' – Times Literary Supplement. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? In his book Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, Philip Auslander historically demonstrates that the term 'live' was never used, in the sense we understand it today, before the invention of cinema.