Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance

NPR Great Read of 2016 From the acclaimed author of Rip It Upand Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary S

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective

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 to see musi

In Liveness Philip Auslander addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today: What is the status of live performa