Dancing in the distraction factory : music television and popular culture /

This first comprehensive, integrated analysis of MTV provides new ways to understand television and popular music narratives.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodwin, Andrew, 1956-2013 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780816684298
0816684294
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; ONE: Silence! Academics at Work; TWO: From Anarchy to Chromakey Developments in Music Television; THREE: A Musicology of the Image; FOUR: The Structure of Music Video Rethinking Narrative Analysis; FIVE: Metanarratives of Stardom and Identity; SIX: A Televisual Context: MTV; SEVEN: Aesthetics and Politics in Music Television Postmodernism Reconsidered; Concluding Thoughts; Music Television Time Line; Notes; Bibliography; Index.