Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture 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 and digital technologies?
Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander’s groundbreaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all. In this new edition, the author thoroughly updates his provocative argument to take into account the impact of the internet, and cultural, social, and legal developments. He also addresses the situation of live performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In tackling some of the last great shibboleths surrounding the high cultural status of the live event, this classic book will continue to shape opinion and to provoke lively debate on a crucial artistic dilemma: what is live performance and what can it mean to us now?
This extensively revised, new edition of Liveness is an essential read for all students and scholars of performance-based courses.
Author(s): Philip Auslander
Edition: 3
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 229
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the third edition
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
The chapters
Notes
References
2. Live performance in a mediatized culture
The cultural economy of live performance: representation and repetition
The ephemerality and distribution of live and mediatized performance
Against ontology
TeeVee's playhouse
The mediatization of live performance
Liveness in the age of the internet
Proof of life: pandemic performance (a postscript)
On a personal note
Notes
References
3. Liveness and discourses of authenticity in music
The cultural economy of music
Live music and mediatization
Musical authenticities
The paradox of authenticity
Creditworthiness
Instrumentality, authenticity, and electronic music
Skill versus control: new paradigms of musicianship
Notes
References
4. Legally live: law, performance, memory
TeeVee's courthouse, or the resistible rise of the videotape trial
Pandemic proceedings
You don't own me: performance and copyright
Performance as intellectual property: common law copyright, unfair competition, right of publicity, trademark
The Gollum problem
Law and remembrance
Notes
References
5. Conclusion
References
Index
