Philip Auslander
Biographic Data
| ID | 953490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Auslander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Auslander |
| SIGNATURE | AUSLANDER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4813-3518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ao vivo do ciberespaço
The popularization of the english word live recently to symbolize the production of real time audiovisual content for the internet has in this article a presentation of its historical trajectory, from the advent of this word published in an English dictionary for the first time in 1934, to the current contextualization of implications of live in the most recent manifestations of a particular digital technology: conversational softwares, known as …
Liveness
Karaoke Idols
Most ethnographers don t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver, Colorado, he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing. Along the way, he learned everything you might ever want to know about karaoke and the people who enjoy it. The result is Karaoke Idols, a close ethnography of life at a karaoke bar that reveals just wh…
Barbie in a meat dress
Philip Auslander Responds to “Concerning Theory for Performance Studies ”
September 01 2009 Philip Auslander Responds to "Concerning Theory for Performance Studies" Philip Auslander, Philip Auslander Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Richard Schechner Richard Schechner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Philip Auslander Richard Schechner Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2009 New York University and the Massachu…
The Body and the Screen
Reviewed by: The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship Philip Auslander The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship. By Michele White. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006; pp. xi + 307. $38.00 cloth. In The Body and the Screen, Michele White sounds a clarion call to alert us to the things we mostly [End Page 655] take for granted in our interactions with computers, including the metaphors that encourage us to think of…
Lucille Meets GuitarBot
In an essay titled "Instrumentalities," David Burrows proposes ventriloquism as a metaphor for understanding the relationship between musician and instrument. Burrows identifies ventriloquism as "not simply [an act] of concealment and transformation but [one that] involves splitting the performer's personality and displacing part of it onto an alter ego that acts as a foil, not a clone." Like the ventriloquist's dummy, the instrument is made to a…
Liveness
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? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander's ground-breaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liven…
Critical Theory and Performance
Theatricality . Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait.
Performing Glam Rock
When it first appeared in the early 70s, glam rock stood counterculture and psychedelic rock on their heads. The glam phenomenon featured flamboyant, overtly theatrical, and artificial personae constructed through costume, makeup, and sets and was personified by performers, such as David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Bryan Ferry, and Suzi Quatro. Performing Glam Rock situates the glam rock phenomenon historically and examines it as a set of performance stra…
Musical Personae
Although traditional musicology has undergone a “performative turn” in recent years, musicologists still tend to privilege text over performance. The micro-sociology of Erving Goffman offers a framework for a comprehensive overview of how musicians use aspects of musical performance as the means of constructing and communicating their musical personae
At the Listening Post , or, do machines perform
Listening Post, a collaboration between statistician Mark Hansen and media artist Ben Rubin, samples conversations from public Internet chat sites. The sampled texts are displayed on small LCD scre
No-Shows
March 01 2005 No-Shows: The Head Count from the NEA Philip Auslander Philip Auslander School of Literature, Communication, and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Philip Auslander School of Literature, Communication, and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 © 2005 Massachusetts Insti…
I Wanna Be Your Man
As a woman who performs rock music in an unabashedly 'masculine' fashion, Suzi Quatro is often criticised for trying to be 'one of the boys'. Through close examinations of Quatro's performance strategies, including her repertoire, physical performance and vocal presence, I hope to show that Quatro's performances of gender and sexual identity on sound recordings and video belie such an uncomplicated characterisation. Focusing particularly on Quatr…
Good Old Rock and Roll
Looking at Records
In the not-too-distant future a person will listen to any music she desires by subscribing to a “celestial jukebox”—a satellite system serving selections from a vast storehouse. But even as the physical embodiments of music disappear, Auslander wonders, “What does it mean to look at records”—as material objects
Books
September 01 1999 Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture; Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory: Marxism, Modernity and the Threepenny Lawsuit Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture. By RedheadSteve . Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995; 136 pp. $24.95 paper.Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory: Marxism, Modernity and the Threepenny Lawsuit. By GilesSteve . Bern: Peter Lang, 1997; 202 pp. $32.…
Kwaidan (review)
Reviewed by: Kwaidan Philip Auslander Kwaidan. By Ping Chong. Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta. 15 June 1998. Click for larger view View full resolution The Ghost Lady and Jinininki in the Center for Puppetry Arts of Atlanta’s production of Ping Chong’s Kwaidon, directed by Ping Chong. Photo: David Zeiger. Click for larger view View full resolution The Ghost Lady and Jinininki in the Center for Puppetry Arts of Atlanta’s production of Ping Chong…
Legally Live
In thinking about in relation to American law, I choose to focus on copyright and law of evidence because these branches of jurisprudence address that relationship most immediately. Copyright governs ownership and circulation of cultural objects and therefore determines conditions under which participates in a commodity economy. As such, it is branch of jurisprudence that deals most directly with status of in law. Evidence law regulates the proof…
From acting to performance
Evangelical Fervor
Giving the Body Its Due
The "Re-" Words
Presence and Resistance
Critical Theory and Performance
Postmodern Theatric[k]s
Postmodern Theatric(k)s focuses on the voices that have emerged from American experimental theater of the 1960s, voices shaped by the culture of television, film, Pop Art, and rock music. Increasingly, these writers have brought a distinctly new approach to the use of monologue. Deborah Geis argues that in place of the psychological revelation of the Shakespearean soliloquy, these postmodern monologues play tricks by altering, suspending, or rupt…
The Eye of Prey
Herbert Blau here reflects on performance as it moved from theatricalized activism of sixties into theoretical activism of eighties. The essays theorize rather than formulate an ideological program. Blau takes risks at speculative edge of thought. The Eye of Prey is comprised of diverse subject matter: love and mourning, play and aging, radical feminist and homosexual discourse, politics of representation, comedy since Absurd, Barthes and Beckett…
I Wanna Be Your Man
As a woman who performs rock music in an unabashedly 'masculine' fashion, Suzi Quatro is often criticised for trying to be 'one of the boys'. Through close examinations of Quatro's performance strategies, including her repertoire, physical performance and vocal presence, I hope to show that Quatro's performances of gender and sexual identity on sound recordings and video belie such an uncomplicated characterisation. Focusing particularly on Quatr…
Reading Dancing
Posing the question of dance means what it does, Foster uses post-structuralist criticism to de-naturalize the body, the subject, and the expressive act. She compares the codes and conventions of work used by choreographers throughout the history of dance and looks at recent work that uses a multi-disciplinary approach to examine how the body accrues meaning. Subject index. 56 bibl. ref
Lucille Meets GuitarBot
In an essay titled "Instrumentalities," David Burrows proposes ventriloquism as a metaphor for understanding the relationship between musician and instrument. Burrows identifies ventriloquism as "not simply [an act] of concealment and transformation but [one that] involves splitting the performer's personality and displacing part of it onto an alter ego that acts as a foil, not a clone." Like the ventriloquist's dummy, the instrument is made to a…
Musical Personae
Although traditional musicology has undergone a “performative turn” in recent years, musicologists still tend to privilege text over performance. The micro-sociology of Erving Goffman offers a framework for a comprehensive overview of how musicians use aspects of musical performance as the means of constructing and communicating their musical personae
Presence and Resistance
Toward a Concept of the Political in Postmodern Theatre
Surrealism in the Theatre
Any discussion of Surrealism in the theatre is to a large extent hypothetical, a discussion of what might have been had surrealist theory ever been successfully wed to theatrical practice. The surrealist movement in France, from its inception in 1924 until the Second World War, presented only seventeen theatrical productions.' Since most of these ran a single evening and none more than three, Surrealism produced no more than thirty evenings of th…
American Playwrights
The Cradle Will Rock
Task and Vision
Of Related Interest
Toward a Concept of the Political in Postmodern Theatre
Reading Dancing
Posing the question of dance means what it does, Foster uses post-structuralist criticism to de-naturalize the body, the subject, and the expressive act. She compares the codes and conventions of work used by choreographers throughout the history of dance and looks at recent work that uses a multi-disciplinary approach to examine how the body accrues meaning. Subject index. 56 bibl. ref
"Debating "Ways of Speaking, Loci of Cognition
An effort to translate your Comment: Ways of Speaking, Loci of Cognition (Schechner I987) to my own situation or to other political contexts I am aware of quite immediately lead to conclusions different from the ones you draw, namely that political thought and action cannot be meaningfully talked because practitioners (in your example: a black populist leader, a university professor, a theatre director) are so disconnected that their discourses o…
The Eye of Prey
Herbert Blau here reflects on performance as it moved from theatricalized activism of sixties into theoretical activism of eighties. The essays theorize rather than formulate an ideological program. Blau takes risks at speculative edge of thought. The Eye of Prey is comprised of diverse subject matter: love and mourning, play and aging, radical feminist and homosexual discourse, politics of representation, comedy since Absurd, Barthes and Beckett…
Auslander Wins Last Word
Going with the Flow
The Bread and Puppet Theatre, Volume One
The School for Wives
The New York School Poets as Playwrights
Intellectual Property Meets the Cyborg
The Audience
Presence and Resistance
Examines performance art in the 1980s and new modes of political art in a media-saturated culture
The Theory-Death of the Avant-Garde
Unmarked
Phelan's critical analysis of this anthology of performance foregrounds issues of corporeality, racial and sexual difference, reproductive rights and AIDS. Cultural practices of photography, film, theatre, political protest and performance art are discussed in relation to pshycoanalytic and feminist theories. Emphasis is placed on the works of Mapplethorpe, Schor, Sherman, Rainer, Livingston and Stoppard. Includes name and theme index. 337 bibl. …
Teleliteracy
Configurations - Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1994
Evangelical Fervor
Giving the Body Its Due
The "Re-" Words
Presence and Resistance
Presence and Desire
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