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This book investigates the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Bratus explores the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers and audiences.
List of contents
Introduction: Theoretically Live: Performance and Mediation between Experience, Intermediality, and Authenticity
Chapter 1: Live Once, and Witness Forever: The Analytical Framework
Chapter 2: The Many Lives of Jimi: Recordings and Utopian Spaces in Hendrix's Posthumous Albums
Chapter 3: So Empty without Me? Heritage, Realness and Memory in Tupac Shakur's Posthumous Records
Chapter 4: Identity as Timbre: Johnny Cash's Expansive Identity in the American Recordings and Beyond
Chapter 5: A Conversation with No Speakers: Live without Audience
Chapter 6: Live EDM: Audiovisual Performativity for Bodies and Machines
Coda: (Living?) In the Material World: The In-Betweenness of Michael Jackson's This Is It
About the author
Alessandro Bratus is senior lecturer in the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage at the University of Pavia.
Summary
This book investigates the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Bratus explores the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers and audiences.
