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Rhythm Image

Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvSteven Shaviro,Carol Vernallis,Lisa Perrott,Holly Rogers

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Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of reference, from dance to high fashion to cult movies and television shows to Internet memes. Above all, music videos are laboratories for experimenting with new forms of audiovisual expression. The Rhythm Image explores all these dimensions. The book analyzes, in depth, recent music videos for artists ranging from pop superstar The Weeknd to independent women artists like FKA twigs and Dawn Richard. The music videos discussed in this book all treat the traditional themes of popular music: sex and romance, money and fame, and the lived experiences of race and gender. But they twist these themes in strange and unexpected ways, in order to reflect our entanglement with a digital world of social media, data gathering, and 24/7 demands upon our attention.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-12-15
Mått152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501388569

Tillhör följande kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Digital konst, videokonst och new media arts inom Kultur
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Internet och digitala medier inom Kultur

List of FiguresPreface 1. The Rhythm Image2. Post-Cinematic Articulations of Sound and Vision (Massive Attack)3. Cyborg Avatars (Dawn Richard)4. Pulses of Distraction (Tierra Whack)5. Living With Time-Space Compression (Bonobo)6. The Passion According to FKA twigs7. Vanishing Voices (Moses Sumney)8. Metamorphoses of a Severed Head (The Weeknd)9. Submerged (Tkay Maidza)AfterwordBooks and Articles CitedMusic and Videos CitedIndex

A quarter-century back, MTV’s Amp showcased electronica videos, eerie creatures of beats-driven posthumanism. The show ended, but the videos multiplied, digital tinkering to visualize hip-hop, R&B, and new divas alongside EDM for stop-start viewing on YouTube. Steven Shaviro philosopher of speculative fiction, at last names this core category: the rhythm image. Gazing and auditing, applying theory as needed, he makes that tweak in the assemblage on your screen a frontier. The filmic nugget pulsates, in his cuts from micro to macro analysis, becoming a fundamental cultural reshaping—the visual groove as 21st century homeland.