Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser

Editors' preface / Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill -- A backward-looking foreword / Elisabeth Le Guin -- Introduction / Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill -- U2 3D : concert films and/as live performance / Susan Fast -- Performing collective improvisation : the Grateful Dead's "Dark star" / Richard Pettengill -- Jazz improvisation as a social arrangement / Philip Auslander -- Bridging the unbridgeable? Empirical musicology and interdisciplinary performance studies / Nicholas Cook -- The written and the sung : ornamenting Il barbiere di Siviglia / Philip Gossett -- Enacting the revolution : Thalberg in 1848 / Dana Gooley -- Cutting loose : burying "The first man of jazz" / Joseph Roach -- Abbey Lincoln's screaming singing and the sonic liberatory potential thereafter / Aida Mbowa -- Got to get over the hump : the politics of glam in the work of Labelle and Parliament / Margaret F. Savilonis -- "Bring the pain" : post-Soul memory, neo-Soul affect, and Lauryn Hill in the Black public sphere / Daphne A. Brooks -- Don't stop 'til you get enough : presence, spectacle, and good feeling in Michael Jackson's This is it / Jason King -- Carles Santos : "music in the theatre" / Maria M. Delgado -- Tchekisse : Neba Solo's Senufo counterpoint in action / Ingrid Monson -- Playing games with music (and vice versa) : ludomusicological perspectives on guitar hero and rock band / Roger Moseley -- Beyond performance : transmusicking in cyberspace / David Borgo -- Afterword : Music as performance : the disciplinary dilemma revisited / Philip Auslander