Music Video Spaces
Atmospheres, Imaginaries, and Negotiations of Audio-Visual Spatial Relations
Will be published approx. on 15. April 2027
Book
Hardback
272 pages
979-8-216-37674-3 (ISBN)
Description
Music videos conceive, depict and perform a variety of imaginary, communicative, social and cultural spaces and thus can contribute to sharpening our artistic and academic sensibilities and imaginations of the production of space.
The production and representation of space and place in film and (popular) music has received increasing scholarly attention. However, a surprising gap appears at the most obvious intersection of these two fields of study: the music video. While urban settings have dominated in music video history due to many popular music genres' close ties with urban scenes and sounds, some music videos address classical tropes of the sublime and concomitant representations of nature, like forests, deserts, mountains or the sea, while others explore the spatialities and visualities of recently emerging scopic regimes, such as Google Street View, the vertical perspectives of Google Earth and drone footage.
The collected case studies cover a variety of European cultures and geographies, including mountain, desert and urban landscapes. In so doing, the edited volume probes and underlines the versatility of music videos as a highly sensitive medium of spatial reflection of times in which societies, political formations and the climate are undergoing radical changes.
The production and representation of space and place in film and (popular) music has received increasing scholarly attention. However, a surprising gap appears at the most obvious intersection of these two fields of study: the music video. While urban settings have dominated in music video history due to many popular music genres' close ties with urban scenes and sounds, some music videos address classical tropes of the sublime and concomitant representations of nature, like forests, deserts, mountains or the sea, while others explore the spatialities and visualities of recently emerging scopic regimes, such as Google Street View, the vertical perspectives of Google Earth and drone footage.
The collected case studies cover a variety of European cultures and geographies, including mountain, desert and urban landscapes. In so doing, the edited volume probes and underlines the versatility of music videos as a highly sensitive medium of spatial reflection of times in which societies, political formations and the climate are undergoing radical changes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-216-37674-3 (9798216376743)
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Persons
Johannes Springer is a lecturer in cultural studies at the Institute of Music at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany. He has held teaching and research roles at the University of Bremen (Germany), University of Goettingen (Germany), University of Zuerich (Switzerland), Reykjavik University (Iceland), and Catholic University of Applied Sciences Muenster (Germany). His areas of interest and publications include pop music studies, labor in creative industries, production of cultural perspectives, theories of space and place, stars and fandom, youth culture and ageing. His latest publication is The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism (2023).
Maximilian Jablonowski is a lecturer at the Institute of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria. His areas of research and teaching comprise pop culture, visual studies, urban culture, media technologies and cultural theory.
Maximilian Jablonowski is a lecturer at the Institute of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria. His areas of research and teaching comprise pop culture, visual studies, urban culture, media technologies and cultural theory.
Content
Music Video Spaces: Introduction and Overview
Maximilian Jablonowski (University of Vienna, Austria) and Johannes Springer (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany)
I. Foundations
1. Music Video's Hybrid Audiovisual Spaces
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)
2. Carto-Clips: Map-like Imagery in Music Videos
Tania Rossetto (University of Padova, Italy)
3. See What I Sing: Finnish Lyric Videos, Karaoke Aesthetics and Narrowing the Gap Between the Artist and Her Audience
Anna-Elena Paeaekkoelae (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
II. Urban Music Video Spaces | Vertical and horizontal
4. The Big City as a Musico-Visual Phenomenon: Aesthetic Experience of Urban Space in Contemporary Music Videos
Antoine Gaudin (University Paris 3, France)
5. Socialism, Electoral Politics and 'Plastic Soul' in London, 1981-1987
Owen Hatherley (Independent Scholar, UK)
III. Music Video Time-Spaces | Atmospheres and Nostalgia
6. Contested Chronotopes? Claiming Nature, Past, and Belonging in Austropop Music Videos
Bernhard Tschofen (University Zurich, Switzerland)
7. Derive: Space, Sublime, Beauty
Stefan Hartmann (University Augsburg, USA)
8. 'Alpenrap' / Alpine Rap: Contested Imaginaries of the Alps in Hip Hop Music Videos 1983-2024
Maximilian Jablonowski (University of Vienna, Austria) and Johannes Springer (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany)
IV. Music Video Spatial Politics | Belongings and Protests
9. Desert (Be)Longings: Space-Bending, Identity Play and Sounds of Elsewhere in Contemporary Israeli Music Video
Alexa Altmann (Humboldt University, Germany)
10. Spaces of Discomfort and Spaces for Escape and Refuge. A Panoramic View Through Spanish Music Video
Monica Salcedo Calvo (Universidad Autonoma, Spain)
11. Music Video as Mediatized Protest: Pitura Freska's Venessia in Afito
Janine Schemmer (University of Vienna, Austria)
12. Cycling the City: The Role of the Bike in Contemporary Music Videos
Johannes Springer (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany)
Index
Maximilian Jablonowski (University of Vienna, Austria) and Johannes Springer (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany)
I. Foundations
1. Music Video's Hybrid Audiovisual Spaces
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)
2. Carto-Clips: Map-like Imagery in Music Videos
Tania Rossetto (University of Padova, Italy)
3. See What I Sing: Finnish Lyric Videos, Karaoke Aesthetics and Narrowing the Gap Between the Artist and Her Audience
Anna-Elena Paeaekkoelae (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
II. Urban Music Video Spaces | Vertical and horizontal
4. The Big City as a Musico-Visual Phenomenon: Aesthetic Experience of Urban Space in Contemporary Music Videos
Antoine Gaudin (University Paris 3, France)
5. Socialism, Electoral Politics and 'Plastic Soul' in London, 1981-1987
Owen Hatherley (Independent Scholar, UK)
III. Music Video Time-Spaces | Atmospheres and Nostalgia
6. Contested Chronotopes? Claiming Nature, Past, and Belonging in Austropop Music Videos
Bernhard Tschofen (University Zurich, Switzerland)
7. Derive: Space, Sublime, Beauty
Stefan Hartmann (University Augsburg, USA)
8. 'Alpenrap' / Alpine Rap: Contested Imaginaries of the Alps in Hip Hop Music Videos 1983-2024
Maximilian Jablonowski (University of Vienna, Austria) and Johannes Springer (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany)
IV. Music Video Spatial Politics | Belongings and Protests
9. Desert (Be)Longings: Space-Bending, Identity Play and Sounds of Elsewhere in Contemporary Israeli Music Video
Alexa Altmann (Humboldt University, Germany)
10. Spaces of Discomfort and Spaces for Escape and Refuge. A Panoramic View Through Spanish Music Video
Monica Salcedo Calvo (Universidad Autonoma, Spain)
11. Music Video as Mediatized Protest: Pitura Freska's Venessia in Afito
Janine Schemmer (University of Vienna, Austria)
12. Cycling the City: The Role of the Bike in Contemporary Music Videos
Johannes Springer (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany)
Index