Traveling Music Videos

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Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural industries. With the onset of digital technologies and the proliferation of global video-sharing websites at the beginning of the 21st century, music video migrated from TV screens to turn instead to the internet, art galleries, concert stages, and social media. As a result, its aesthetics, technological groundings, and politics have been radically transformed. From the kinaesthetic experience of TikTok to the recent reimaginations of maps and navigation tools through music video cartographies; from the ecofeminist voices and bodily politics of contemporary production to the transmedia logic of visual albums and video gamesthe individual chapters map the ways music video is continually reconfiguring itself. The volume tracks music videos audiovisual itineraries, maps its intermedia routes, and tackles the impact that it has on our current media ecosystem.

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Mathias Bonde Korsgaard is Associate Professor of Film and Media at School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. He has published extensively on music video and audiovisual studies, including the book Music Video After MTV (2017). Korsgaard is the editor-in-chief of the Danish online film journal 16:9 (16-9.dk). Tom Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Palack University Olomouc, Czech Republic. He has published widely on the relations between literature and the visual arts, affect studies, and music video. His most recent book is Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (Bloomsbury 2021).