More Than Illustrated Music: Aesthetics of Hybrid Media between Pop, Art and Video - Paperback

by Kathrin Dreckmann (Editor), Elfi Vomberg (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Kathrin Dreckmann is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Her second book The Power of Pop (Culture): Cultural Imagery and Media Aesthetic Concepts deals with aesthetic image programs between art practice, digital image media and pop cultural production processes. Her publications focus on sound studies, media studies as well as queer theory.

Elfi Vomberg is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. In her research projects, she focuses on culture, aesthetics, and history of acoustic media as well as on the field of archive and memory studies.