CLASSWORK: we created a PAGE at the top of our blogs (see above) to house the theoretical frameworks that we need for discussing music video. Here is what it looks like so far:
ANDREW GOODWIN Dancing In The Distraction Factory 1993
The relationship between the visuals and the lyrics and so on (see your sheet)
ROLAND BARTHES
Semiotics: the creation of meaning though symbolic codes. Article by Daniel Chandler HERE
The Death of The Author: Barthes' assertion that the reader is the key negociator of meaning, we think about our own texts and how we used images and meanings that tap into already-held oppositions and responses to symbols.
Julian McDougall's suggestion that classical narrative frameworks can be reductive and Barthes' assertion, we think about our own texts and how we used images and meanings that tap into already-held oppositions and responses to symbols.
ROLAND BARTHES
Identify your singer's grain of voice. Barthes describes a concept known as the “Grain of Voice”, which is essentially the way that the voice provides itself as an expressive instrument to the singer, something which is personal and unique. It is like a trademark or a fingerprint, being able to make associations in itself, and the voice itself may have a unique piece to it which expresses an artist’s individuality. This means that the singer is the most important person in the band in terms of the grain of voice, and as such a concept for music videos is that the singer should be the main focal point throughout the video, with close-up shots of them performing the song.
RICHARD DYER Stars 1979
Dyer's star theory applied to pop stars. The role of the video in promoting the singer or band. Performers as stars explained HERE
Stars are constructed, artificial images, even if they are represented as being "real people", experiencing real emotions.
TODOROV and VLADIMIR PROPP
Narrative: the audience's attempts to understand meaning through recognising structures explained HERE
Propp on narrative MediaKnowall article HERE
Tvzetan Todorov suggests narrative is simply equilibrium, disequilibrium, new equilibrium
HEIDI PETERS The Semiotics of Music Videos: It Must Be Written in the Stars 2004
How narrative is handled (Heidi Peters article on image and narrative (semiotics) here
A defence of the music video as a form in its own right.
STEVE ARCHER Studying Music Video
Following on from his article on MTV in MediaMagazine 6, Steve Archer suggests 5 essential criteria for evaluating music videos.
Media Magazine article here
ROY SHUKER Understanding Popular Music 2001
'U Got the Look' chapter 10
KEITH NEGUS the ideologies of the music industry
organic and synthetic artists
link here and here
THEODORE ADORNO.
The Frankfurt School. The culture industry and false needs brief explanation here
ANDY WARHOL
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
DICK HEBDIGE Subcultures
brief explanation here
SHERI KATHLEEN COLE The Pornographic Ideology of the Music IndustryEnculturation , Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1999 Enculturation
Example: Duran Duran Girls On Film on You Tube here
LAURA MULVEY
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