Digital Music Videos

Steven Shaviro

Published by Rutgers University Press 2017

Digital Music Videos

Steven Shaviro

In the series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813579559

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About this book

Music videos today sample and rework a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before.

As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely accessible than ever before. In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro examines the ways that music videos interact with and change older media like movies and gallery art; the use of technologies like compositing, motion control, morphing software, and other digital special effects in order to create a new organization of time and space; how artists use music videos to project their personas; and how less well known musicians use music videos to extend their range and attract attention.

Surveying a wide range of music videos, Shaviro highlights some of their most striking innovations while illustrating how these videos are creating a whole new digital world for the music industry.

Author / Editor information

STEVEN SHAVIRO is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of several books including, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism.

Reviews

"Digital Music Videos combines genuine fandom with lightly-worn erudition, infra-red insight, and page-turning readability."

— Dominic Pettman, author of Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines

"A beautiful book! With wide-eyed curiosity and a sense of joy, Steven Shaviro discovers new levels of richness and density in music video. Shaviro precisely captures the genre’s latest turns, its shimmering surfaces, its cultural meanings--and why it seems ever more central to our culture."

— Carol Vernallis, author of Unruly Media

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Superimpositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Glitch Aesthetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Remediations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Limits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
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Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 140
Keywords: music; music video; sound; composition; artist; musician; digital world; music industry; nme; capitol; atlantic; records; film

eBook

Published: April 15, 2017
ISBN: 9780813579559