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The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms

The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms

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Music videos are essential for understanding the personas and visions of musical artists, as well as the cutting edge of popular culture. They fuse and revise multiple frames of reference, from dance to high fashion to cult movies and television shows to Internet memes, and are laboratories for experimenting with new forms of audiovisual expression. The Rhythm Image explores recent music videos for artists ranging from pop superstar The Weeknd to independent women artists like FKA twigs and Dawn Richard, which twist traditional themes of popular music in strange and unexpected ways to reflect our entanglement with a digital world of social media, data gathering, and 24/7 demands upon our attention.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc


Music videos have become an essential part of our digital media landscape, serving as powerful tools for projecting the personas and visions of musical artists, exploring the cutting edge of popular culture, and fusing and revising multiple frames of reference. They are laboratories for experimenting with new forms of audiovisual expression, and The Rhythm Image explores these dimensions in depth. The book analyzes recent music videos for artists ranging from pop superstar The Weeknd to independent women artists like FKA twigs and Dawn Richard, focusing on the traditional themes of popular music: sex and romance, money and fame, and the lived experiences of race and gender. However, these themes are twisted in strange and unexpected ways to reflect our entanglement with a digital world of social media, data gathering, and 24/7 demands upon our attention.

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501388552

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