Liveness

'The book offers a meticulously developed argument... Highly recommended.' -CHOICE 'Auslander writes fascinatingly.' - Times Literary Ssupplement 'The book offers a meticulously developed argument... Highly recommended.' -CHOICE 'Auslander writes fascinatingly.' - Times Literary Supplement

Philip Auslander is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches Performance Studies, Media Studies, and Popular Music. He is a contributing editor to the US-based TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies and the Journal of American Drama and Theater, as well as the UK-based Performance Research and Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. He contributes regularly to these and other journals and has published five books, including Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance (University of Michigan, 1992), From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (Routledge, 1997), and Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (Routledge 1999). He received the prestigious Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Theatre or Drama for Liveness. His most recent book is Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (University of Michigan, 2006). Auslander is the editor of Performance: Critical Concepts, a reference collection in four volumes published by Routledge in 2003 and, with Carrie Sandahl, co-editor of Bodies in Commotion: Performance and Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2005). In addition to his scholarly work on performance, Prof. Auslander writes art criticism for ArtForum and other publications.

Acknowledgements Preface to the second edition 1. Introduction: An Orchid in the Land of Technology 2. Live Performance in a Mediatized Culture 3. Tryin' To Make It Real: Live Performance, Simulation and the Discourse of Authenticity in Rock Culture 4. Legally Live: Law, Performance, Memory 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index