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Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context
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Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context Hardcover - 2004

by Carol Vernallis


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Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos continue to exert an enormous influence on popular music. They help to create an artist's identity, to affect a song's mood, to determine chart success: the music video has changed our idea of the popular song. Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from the songs they illuminate--and sell. Carol Vernallis describes how verbal, musical, and visual codes combine in music video to create defining representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and performance. The book explores the complex interactions of narrative, settings, props, costumes, lyrics, and much more. Three chapters contain close analyses of important videos: Madonna's "Cherish," Prince's "Gett Off," and Peter Gabriel's "Mercy St."

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  • Title Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context
  • Author Carol Vernallis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Date 2004-06-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780231117982 / 0231117981
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7.2 x 1 in (25.40 x 18.29 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Music videos - History and criticism, Music videos - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003064605
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.267

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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2004, Page 672

About the author

Carol Vernallis is associate professor in the Media Arts and Studies Division of the Communication Department at Wayne State University.
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