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Performance in a Mediatized Culture
Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is ...
Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music
Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance...
A Student's Guide
Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guideis a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between performance studies and critical theor...
Performing Musical Persona
The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary t...
Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism
This first collection of essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial t...
Essays on Performance and Its Documentation
Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in re...
Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance
Examines performance art in the 1980s and new modes of political art in a media-saturated culture...
O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch, Schuyler, and the Visual Arts
The New York School Poets as Playwrights is a critical introduction to a little-known body of drama by four preeminent American poets. In this interdi...
Portraits in Popular Musihb
Women Rock! honors the unique contributions of 50 female artists with noteworthy contributions to music including Pat Benatar, Debbie Harry, Janis Jop...
"Located at the intersection of performance and visual art, On Performativity examines the questions that emerge when our art experiences are framed a...
Disability and Performance
"A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, thi...