More Than Illustrated Music

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.

This much needed collection contextualizes music video squarely within the historical, aesthetic, and institutional discourses of visual art. It treats music video not simply as an industrial product but as a hybrid genre in which artistic practices of film, television, and artists’ video enter into dialogue with one another and with everyday practices of consumption and identity formation. This stimulating volume situates music video in an expanded field and offers multiple starting points for new ways of talking about it.

• Introduction by Kathrin Dreckmann and Elfi VombergI MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY: THE BEGINNING OF HYBRID MEDIA1 Music Video and Its Convergence Potential: From the Hybrid to the Permeable Henry Keazor, Heidelberg University, Germany2 Sound & Vision: Early Artists’ Video and MusicChris Meigh-Andrews, University of Central Lancashire, UK3 The Process of Creating Was More Important Than the Object: Interview with Ulrike RosenbachII MEDIA ARCHIVES ON HYBRIDS4 It Belongs in a Museum? Music Videos in Danish Museum ExhibitionsMathias Bonde Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark5 “No Returns for Dislike”: How Music Videos and Video Art Entered the Living Room in the 1980sLinnea Semmerling, Düsseldorf Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI), Germany6 An Aura with Pencil, Brushes, and Pixels: Interview with Wulf Herzogenrath,III HYBRID IMAGINES: MEDIA AESTHETICS BETWEEN POP AND IDENTITY7 “You Need To Calm Down”—Stardom and Cancel Culture: The Music Video as an Audiovisual Protest PosterElfi Vomberg, Heinrich Heine University, Germany8 Facing the Lens of the Camera: Bodies, Self-portraiture, Portraiture, and Identity in Women Artists’ VideoLaura Leuzzi, Robert Gordon University, University of Abertay, UK9 Spirit of Creation—Between Documenting, Expressing, and Archiving: Interview with AnAkAIV AESTHETICS OF POPULAR MEDIA HYBRIDS10 Trans* Bowie…Trans* PrinceJack Halberstam, Columbia University, USA11 “Black Queen and King”: Iconographies of Self-empowerment, Canon, and Pop in the Current Music VideoKathrin Dreckmann, Heinrich Heine University, Germany12 Audiovisual Art Is About Hybridization: Interview with Barbara LondonV FUTURE AESTHETICS ON HYBRID MEDIA13 Music Video Distortion and Posthuman Technogenesis Kristen Lillvis, St. Catherine University, USA14 Untimely Futures and the Art of Revolutionary LifeJami Weinstein, Linköping University, Sweden15 Feeling Closer to the Track—The Representation of Blackness in Music Video: Interview with Modu SesayVI MEDIA ART HYBRIDS16 Hold Up: Mapping the Boundaries of Music Video and Video Art Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK17 But Still... Is It Art? Contemporary Music Video, Art (Discourse), and Authority—Revisited Maren Butte, Heinrich Heine University, Germany18 Time-based Media Art in Music Video—One Does Something the Other Cannot: Interview with Julia StoschekBiographiesIndex