Aesthetic Amalgams and Political Pursuits
Subtitle: Intertextuality in Music Videos
By: edited by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, Agata Handley, and Tomasz Fisiak
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9798765109533; 9798765109502; 9798765109526; 9798765109540
Subjects: Essays; Intertextuality; Music videos; Music; Philosophy: aesthetics; Popular culture
Description: This open access book illustrates how intertextuality in music videos can be used to create new aesthetic patterns and develop a political agenda.  In an age when most people are immersed in popular culture, music videos often bridge the gap between readily accessible and more demanding artistic forms. Music videos can sensitize the audience to various eminent themes, motifs, and artistic conventions by means of transferring them into a familiar medium. The efficacy of this process is enhanced through the use of intertextual references to other culture products, whereby meanings are conveyed in a highly condensed form. At the same time, intertexts connected with particular art forms can undergo significant revisions through the cultural context in which a new music video is produced: the amalgam of word, sound and image initiates innovative readings of familiar motifs, and transforms the understanding of literature, music, film, and fine arts.   Located at the intersection of different semiotic systems, music videos can juxtapose notions from contrasting areas - folk culture, myth, politics, psychology, aesthetics - in unconventional ways. Authored by a group of international scholars, implementing various conceptual approaches, and analyzing an original selection of artists, this collection of essays examines music videos as an innovative transmedial practice which employs intertextuality both to create new aesthetic patterns and to develop a political agenda. The book views creative intertextuality as a token of the hybrid nature of present-day audio-visual popular culture and contemporary (post)human subjectivity in general.  The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments   Introduction: Word-Sound-Image-Intertextuality in Music Videos  Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, Agata Handley, and Tomasz Fisiak   Section 1: Music Video as New Transmedial Practice 1. Integrated Pop: Intertextuality, Music Video, and Transmedia Production Modes in Popular Music  Christofer Jost  2. Music Video Meets Social Media: Intertextuality, New Aesthetics, and the Development of New Practices  Eduardo Viñuela  3. Nostalgic Simulation: Intertextuality and Gaming in Muse's "Thought Contagion" Video  Agata Handley and Tomasz Dobrogoszcz  4. "I'm too classy for this world, forever, I'm that girl": Media Hybrids between Pop and Art in Beyoncé's Renaissance  Kathrin Dreckmann   Section 2: Intertextuality as a Tool of Political Engagement 5. Part of Whose World? Intertextuality, Media-lore, and Ethnic Identity in Mermaid Themed Music Videos  Philip Hayward and Dorota Filipczak  6. "Our Time Has Come, Your Time Is Up": The Song Suffragettes' March for Gender Equality in Country Music  Jada Watson  7. Gold Diggers of MTV: Creating New Gender Narratives from the Busby Berkeley "Showgirl" Trope  Karen Fournier 8. Ecofeminist Voices and Body Politics in Music Videos by Bjo¨rk, Aurora, and MØ  Anna-Elena Pääkkölä    Section 3: Repetition with a Difference: Re-Cycling Aesthetic Patterns 9.  Sophie Muller's Gothic Intertexts  Tomasz Fisiak and Malgorzata Grajter  10. Intertextuality in Music Video: The Case of Taylor Swift and Joseph Kahn  Carol Vernallis, Joanna Nadolny, and Steven Shaviro  11. "I don't wanna make it, I just wanna... ": Cinematic Intertextuality in 2000s Emo Music Videos  Michael N. Goddard 12. Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen? On Stylistic References to Stanley Kubrick's Films in Music Videos Adam Cybulski and Konrad Klejsa   Contributors  Index