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Thirty-five + essays drawn from the past thirty-five + years of Philip Auslander’s scholarship are available for download here.

“Framing Personae in Music Video.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis. Eds. Lori Burns and Stan Hawkins. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

“On Repetition,” Performance Research, Vol. 23, Nos. 4-5, 2018.

“Film Acting and Performance Capture: The Index in Crisis,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, September 2017. Online version in The Theatre Times linked here.

“The Fame: Performance Art and Celebrity Culture,” Dissect Journal #3, 2016 [dated 2016 but published in 2017].

“21^st Century Girl: Lady Gaga, Performance Art, and Glam Rock.” In Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s. Ed. Ian Chapman and Henry Johnson. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.

With Ian Inglis. “Nothing is Real: The Beatles as Virtual Performers.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality. Ed. Sheila Whitely and Shara Rambaran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Afterword: So Close, and Yet So Far Away: The Proxemics of Liveness,” in Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Matthew Reason and Anja Mølle Lindelof. New York, London: Routledge, 2016.

“Music as Performance: The Disciplinary Dilemma Revisited” [Expanded Version]. In Sound und Performance. Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater, Bd. 24. Ed. Wolf-Dieter Ernst. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2015.

“Everybody’s in Show Biz: Performing Star Identity in Popular Music.” In The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music. Ed. Andy Bennett and Steve Waksman. London: SAGE Publications, 2015.

“On the Concept of Persona in Performance,” Kunstlicht Vol. 36, No. 3, 2015.

“Théâtre et performance : l’évasion de la representation.” In Corps en scène, ed. Catherine Courtet et al. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2015.

“Barbie in a Meat Dress: Performance and Mediatization in the 21^st Century.” In Mediatization of Communication. Handbooks of Communication Science. Ed. Knut Lundby. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.

“Jazz Improvisation as a Social Arrangement.” In Taking It to the Bridge: Music As Performance. Ed. Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

“Sound and Vision: The Audio-Visual Economy of Musical Performance,” in The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, ed. John Richardson, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

“Repetition and Theatricality in Ragnar Kjartansson’s Performance Art,” Ragnar Kjartansson: To Music/An die Musik (Zurich, Switzerland: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst/JRP|Ringier, 2012). Coming soon!

“Digital Liveness: A Historico-Philosophical Perspective,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art Vol. 34, No. 3, September 2012.

“Lucille Meets GuitarBot: Instrumentality, Agency, and Technology in Musical Performance,” Theatre Journal, Vol. 61, No. 2, December 2009.

“Live and Technologically Mediated Performance,” The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies, ed. Tracy C. Davis. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

“Motional Abstraction: Alwin Nikolais’s Formalism.” The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries and the Dance Canon, ed. Randy Martin and Claudia Gitelman. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. Coming soon!

“Watch That Man: David Bowie: Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973,” Performance And Popular Music: History, Place And Time, ed. Ian Inglis. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

“Musical Personae,” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2006.

“Humanoid Boogie: Reflections on Robotic Performance,” in Staging Philosophy: New Approaches to Theater and Performance, ed. David Krasner and David Saltz, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.

“The Performativity of Performance Art Documentation,” Performing Arts Journal, 84, September 2006.

“AnimalCam: Ocularcentrism and Non-Human Performance.”A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past, ed. Judie Christie, Richard Gough, and Daniel Watt. London: Routledge, 2006.

“Performance as Therapy: Spalding Gray’s Autopathographic Monologues,” Bodies in Commotion: Performance and Disability, ed. Philip Auslander and Carrie Sandahl. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

“Postmodernism and Performance,” The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism, ed. Steven Connor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

“Good Old Rock and Roll: Performing the 1950s in the 1970s,” Journal of Popular Music Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2003.

“Behind the Scenes: Gregor Schneider’s Totes Haus ur,” Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 25, 2003.

“Live From Cyberspace: or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot,” Performing Arts Journal Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2002.

“‘Just Be Your Self’: Logocentrism and Difference in Performance Theory,” in Acting Reconsidered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide, 2nd edition, ed. Phillip B. Zarrilli. London, New York: Routledge, 2002.

“Looking at Records,” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2001.