More Than Illustrated Music

The genre of the video clip has been established for more than thirty years, mainly served by the sub genres of video art and music video. This book explores processes of hybridization between music video, film, and video art by presenting current theoretical discourses and engaging them through interviews with well-known artists and directors, bringing to the surface the crucial questions of art practice. The collection discusses topics including postcolonialism, posthumanism, gender, race and class and addresses questions regarding the hybrid media structure of video, the diffusion between content and form, art and commerce as well as pop culture and counterculture. Through the diversity of the areas and interviews included, the book builds on and moves beyond earlier aesthetics-driven perspectives on music video.

Auteur

Kathrin Dreckmann is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Her research focuses on acoustic studies, gender, and media studies. Her recent work includes publications on the aesthetics and the dispositive of music video, performativity in popular music and media theory.

Elfi Vomberg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Her recent publications focus on music theater with special consideration of Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk. In her current research projects, she explores the interface of acoustic and memory studies and examines pop cultures in connection with methods of oral history.