ABSTRACT
My project here-analyzing the situation of live performance in a mediatized culture-has entailed documenting many of the ways in which mediatization impinges upon live events. Almost all live performances now incorporate the technology of reproduction, at the very least in the use of electric amplification, and sometimes to the point where they are hardly live at all. But the influence of mediatization on live events is not simply a matter of equipment. Some live performances, such as certain Broadway plays and many sports events, are now literally made for television: the live event itself is shaped to the demands of mediatization. Others, like Madonna’s concerts and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, recreate mediatized performances in a live setting.
