Looking at Music

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Rewind – Play – Fast Forward 7
4. Rewind: The History, Collecting, and Reception of the Music Video
5. “Don’t You Cry Tonight” 35
6. The Genealogy of the Clip Culture 41
7. Looking at Music 59
8. “Pride and Prejudice” 67
9. Play: The Methodology of Analysis and Interpretation
10. Concerning the Transition of the Reception of the Music Video due to a Change in the Politics of Distribution of the Music Videoand the Music(-TV-)Market 77
11. An Analysis of the Relation between Music and Image 89
12. “Sense and Sensibility” 111
13. The Aesthetics of Music Videos: An Open Debate 135
14. Liquid Cosmos 155
15. Who Cares about the Music in Music Videos? 179
16. Fast Forward: The Future of the Music Video
17. Get the Cut 197
18. “Why Artists Make Clips” 207
19. “It’s the End of Music Videos as we Know them (but we Feel Fine)” 225
20. Music Video and YouTube: New Aesthetics and Generic Transformations 233
21. About the Editors 271
22. About the Authors 271
23. Index 277