Review of Air Guitar Nation (2006) by Mike M — 03 May 2009

Finds the right balance between the tangible - the personalities responsible for these "tight, long strums" - and the absurd... I'm not entirely convinced by air guitar's claims to being a political statement, but Lipsitz makes a more persuasive case for the practice as a blend of mime, modern dance and larky performance art: in the live sequences, certainly, there's no lack of sweat being spilled.