Performance Anxiety in Media Culture Quotes

“The modern rockabilly rebel is inevitably facing a tension between succumbing to the pull of the past—a kind of remembering—and a forgetting that the integrity of any embrace of the past is challenged as contrivance and dissimulation by the near-universal availability of the once-local, once-rebellious, and once-novel style.”
― Steven Bailey, Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance