In Concert: Performing Musical Persona

305 Pages·2021·1.902 MB·English

by  Philip Auslander

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In Concert
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In Concert
Performing Musical Persona
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Philip Auslander
University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor
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Copyright 2021 by Philip Auslander
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Published in the United States of America by
the University of Michigan Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
Printed on acid- free paper
First published January 2021
A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Auslander, Philip, 1956– author.
Title: In concert : performing musical persona / Philip Auslander.
Description: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020032957 (print) | LCCN 2020032958 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780472074716 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780472054718 (paperback) |
ISBN 9780472128396 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Music—Performance. | Persona (Psychoanalysis) | Music—
Performance—Social aspects. | Concerts—Social aspects.
Classification: LCC ML457 .A96 2021 (print) | LCC ML457 (ebook) |
DDC 780.78--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020032957
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020032958
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For Deanna, the sunshine of my life
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Contents
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List of Illustrations ix
Introduction: Genre, Frame, Persona 1
Part I: Preliminaries 17
Chapter One. Performance Analysis and Popular Music:
A Manifesto 21
Chapter Two. Music as Performance:
The Disciplinary Dilemma Revisited 37
Chapter Three. Sound and Vision:
The Audio/Visual Economy of Musical Performance 49
Chapter Four. Lucille Meets GuitarBot:
Agency, Instrumentality, and Technology
in Musical Performance 65
Part II: The Interactionist Turn 83
Chapter Five. Musical Personae 87
Chapter Six. Everybody’s in Showbiz:
Performing Star Identity in Popular Music 129
Chapter Seven. Jazz Improvisation as a Social Arrangement 148
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Part III: Contexts of Performance 165
Chapter Eight. Beatlemania:
The Audience at Shea Stadium, 1965 169
Chapter Nine. Good Old Rock and Roll:
Performing the 1950s in the 1970s 183
Chapter Ten. Barbie in a Meat Dress:
Performance and Mediatization in the Twenty- First Century 207
Acknowledgments 227
Notes 231
Bibliography 263
Index 279
Digital materials related to this title can be found on the Fulcrum platform
via the following citable URL https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10182371
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Illustrations
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Fig. 1. A Model of Popular Music Performance 32
Fig. 2. Video still of Suzi Quatro performing “Can the Can” 35
Fig. 3. Laurie Anderson performing “Drum Dance” 41
Fig. 4. Glenn Gould in a still from the documentary Glenn Gould:
Off the Record (1959) 44
Fig. 5. Patrick K.- H. and Oleg Makarov,
“Live- Acousmatic” performance 50
Fig. 6. Video still of Jefferson Airplane performing
“Wooden Ships” 58
Fig. 7. B. B. King singing in a still from Ralph Gleason’s
Jazz Casual 70
Fig. 8. B. B. King communing with his guitar, Lucille,
in a still from Ralph Gleason’s Jazz Casual 71
Fig. 9. Mari Kimura and GuitarBot performing Kimura’s
GuitarBotana 74
Fig. 10. Mari Kimura and GuitarBot performing Kimura’s
GuitarBotana 75
Fig. 11. Michael Jackson performing “Billie Jean” in 1996 89
Fig. 12. Darius Rucker in a still from the music video
for “Wagon Wheel” (2013) 104
Fig. 13. Still from Carole King’s appearance on the
BBC television program In Concert in 1971 108