| Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media Contributor(s): Arnold, Gina (Editor), Cookney, Daniel (Editor), Fairclough, Kirsty (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501313908 ISBN-13: 9781501313905 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Art | Film & Video |
| Dewey: 780.267 |
| LCCN: 2017003348 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.34 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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". |
Contributor Bio(s): Arnold, Gina: - Gina Arnold is Visiting Professor at the Evergreen State College, USA. As a former rock critic for Rolling Stone, Spin and Entertainment Weekly, she was an early advocate of the genre now known as grunge. She is the author of Route 666: On the Road To Nirvana, (2003), Punk In the Present Tense, (1997) and Exile In Guyville, (Bloomsbury, 2014), as well as Rock Crowds And Power. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature.Cookney, Daniel: - Daniel Cookney is Lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Salford, UK. His writing includes 'Sshhh' in Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (Continuum, 2012) plus the co-edited Extremity and Excess (2012). He also writes for a selection of print and online publications on subjects such as contemporary street art, the branding of cultural institutions and disco whilst maintaining a professional practice producing graphic design for music industry clients including Warner Brothers, Stiff Records, BMG and ZTT.Fairclough, Kirsty: - Kirsty Fairclough is Director of International and Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK. Her publications include the co-edited collection, The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (Bloomsbury 2015), The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (2013) and "Prime Time: Jane Fonda, 'Appropriate' Ageing and the Re-Making of a Hollywood Persona+? (in Lasting Screen Stars: Personas that Endure and Images that Fade), "Growing old in the spotlight: Social Media and Ageing+? (Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ageing) and "Hollywood, Gossip and The 'Appropriately' Ageing Actress+? (in Harleys and Hormones) and "Ageing+? (in Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism). |