Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781501342332
Subjects: Music videos; Popular music, history and criticism
Description: "A wide-ranging overview of current research on music videos and audiovisual elements of popular music"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and social networking sites, the music video has become available to millions worldwide, and continues to serve as a fertile platform for the debate of issues and themes in popular culture. This volume of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible and meaningful. Easily accessible to viewers in everyday life, music videos offer profound cultural interventions and negotiations while traversing a range of media forms. From a variety of unique perspectives, the contributors to this volume undertake discussions that open up new avenues for exploring the creative changes and developments in music video production. With chapters that address music video authorship, distribution, cultural representations, mediations, aesthetics, and discourses, this study signals a major initiative to provide a deeper understanding of the intersecting and interdisciplinary approaches that are invoked in the analysis of this popular and influential musical form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.