Digital Music Videos

by Steven Shaviro

Overview

Music videos today sample and rework a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before. 
 
As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely accessible than ever before. In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro examines the ways that music videos interact with and change older media like movies and gallery art; the use of technologies like compositing, motion control, morphing software, and other digital special effects in order to create a new organization of time and space; how artists use music videos to project their personas; and how less well known musicians use music videos to extend their range and attract attention.
 
Surveying a wide range of music videos, Shaviro highlights some of their most striking innovations while illustrating how these videos are creating a whole new digital world for the music industry.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813579535
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2017
Series:	Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	4.40(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

STEVEN SHAVIRO is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of several books including, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction
 

1 Superimpositions

Labrinth, “Let It Be” (Us, 2014)

Rihanna, “Disturbia” (Anthony Mandler, 2007)

Lana Del Rey, “Shades of Cool” (Jake Nava, 2014)
 

2 Glitch Aesthetics

Allie X, “Catch” (Jérémie Saindon, 2015)

FKA twigs, “Papi Pacify” (Tom Beard and FKA twigs, 2013)

Janelle Monáe, “Cold War” (Wendy Morgan, 2010)
 

3 Remediations

Animal Collective, “Applesauce” (Gaspar Noé, 2013)

Kylie Minogue, “All the Lovers” (Joseph Kahn, 2010)

Dawn Richard, “Choices” (Jayson Edward Carter, 2015)
 

4 Limits

Massive Attack, “Take It There” (Hiro Murai, 2016)

Sky Ferreira, “Night Time, My Time” (Grant Singer, 2013)

Kari Faux, “Fantasy” (Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2016)
 

Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Works Cited

Videos Cited

Index

Editorial Reviews

"A beautiful book! With wide-eyed curiosity and a sense of joy, Steven Shaviro discovers new levels of richness and density in music video. Shaviro precisely captures the genre’s latest turns, its shimmering surfaces, its cultural meanings—and why it seems ever more central to our culture."

author of Unruly Media - Carol Vernallis

"Digital Music Videos combines genuine fandom with lightly-worn erudition, infra-red insight, and page-turning readability."

author of Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines - Dominic Pettman

"A beautiful book! With wide-eyed curiosity and a sense of joy, Steven Shaviro discovers new levels of richness and density in music video. Shaviro precisely captures the genre’s latest turns, its shimmering surfaces, its cultural meanings—and why it seems ever more central to our culture."

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