Music/Video

Histories, Aesthetics, Media

Gina Arnold, Daniel Cookney, Kirsty Fairclough, Michael Goddard, Gina Arnold, Daniel Cookney, Kirsty Fairclough, Michael Goddard

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781501313912
• eBook ISBN: 9781501313936
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Film & Video
• Index: Social Sciences

This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has remained suspended between two distinct poles. On the one hand, the music video as the visual sheen of late capitalism, at the intersection of celebrity studies and postmodernism. On the other hand, the music video as art, looking to a prehistory of avant-garde film-making while perpetually pushing forward the digital frontier with a taste for anarchy, controversy, and the integration of special effects into a form designed to be disseminated across digital platforms. In this way, the music video virally re-engenders debates about high art and low culture. This collection presents a comprehensive account of the music video from a contemporary 21st century perspective. This entails revisiting key moments in the canonical history of the music video, exploring its articulations of sexuality and gender, examining its functioning as a form of artistic expression between music, film and video art, and following the music video's dissemination into the digital domain, considering how digital media and social media have come to re-invent the forms and functions of the music video, well beyond the limits of "music television".

INDEX

Aaliyah here

ABBA here, here

abhuman, the here, here

Adorno, Theodor here, here

advertising here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Aerosmith here

Afrika Bambaataa here

Agamben, Giorgio here

agit-prop here

A-ha here

Akerman, Chantal here

Alekan, Henri here, here–here

Allan, Blaine here

Allen, Lily here, here

Althusser, Louis here

amateurism here, here, here, here, here, here, here

American Psycho (novel) here

anal terror here, here, here–here, here

analogue technology here, here

analogue video here, here, here, here

anonymity here, here, here, here, here, here

Aphex Twin here, here–here, here, here, here, here

Arc de Triomphe here

Arcade Fire here

Arendt, Hannah here

Art of Noise, The here

audiences here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

audiovision here, here, here–here

audiovisuology here, here, here, here

Augé, Marc here, here

Austerlitz, Saul here, here

Autechre here–here

auteur here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: The Persistence of the Music Video Form from MTV to Twenty-First-Century Social Media
• Section One: Music Video Histories in, outside, and beyond MTV
• Section Two: Gender, Embodiment, and Sexual Representation
• Section Three: The Art of the Music Video
• Section Four: Digital Media and Mutations
• Notes
• Videography
• Works Cited
• Index
• Imprint