[Commlist] new book Traveling Music Videos

*TRAVELING MUSIC VIDEOS*
Edited by Tomáš Jirsa and Mathias Bonde Korsgaard
Bloomsbury Publishing | 288 pages | October 2023
ISBN 9781501398001 | Hardback | $108.00
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/traveling-music-videos-9781501398001/

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, 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 mediated by live-stream concerts to the transmedia 
logic of video games and VR, from the videos’ role in contemporary art 
galleries to their political interventions—the book tracks music video’s 
audiovisual itineraries across different geographies, maps its 
transmedia routes, and tackles the cultural impact that it has on our 
current media ecosystem/./

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*Introduction*
Into the Music Video Traffic: Platforms, Interventions, Extensions 
/(Tomáš Jirsa, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, and Mathias Bonde 
Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark)/

*Section 1: Topographies and Interventions*
1. For Real? The Cross-Pollination of Music Video and Documentary 
/(Laurel Westrup, UCLA, USA)/
2. Moonwalking "Backwards into the Future": 'Poi E,' Music Video, and 
Documentary /(Lisa Perrott, University of Waikato, New Zealand)/
3. Moving Maps into Musical Images: Music Video Mobile Cartographies 
/(Tania Rossetto, University of Padua, Italy)/
4. Rapping a Scandal: The Political Interventions of Central European 
Music Videos /(Tomáš Jirsa, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic)/
5. Pop, Protest, and Transformation: Peter Christopherson's 'Tainted 
Love' /(Emily Caston, University of West London, UK)/
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/*Section 2: Extensions and Intersections*
6. Art Music Video and the Gallery /(Caleb Kelly, The University of New 
South Wales, Australia)/
7. Ghostly Transmedia: Julian House and Hauntological Audio-Vision 
/(Jamie Sexton, Northumbria University, UK)/
8. Music Video Aesthetics in Live Stream Concerts: Aurora's /A Touch of 
the Divine/
/(Anna-Elena Pääkkölä, Åbo Akademi University, Finland)/
9. Lil Nas X's Hedonistic Travels of Earthly Delights /(Zachary Bresler, 
University of Stavanger, Norway, and/ /Stan Hawkins, University of Oslo, 
University of Agder, Norway)/
10. Miley Cyrus's 'Mother's Daughter' as Intersectional Feminist 
Activism? /(Hanna-Mari Riihimäki, University of Turku, Finland)/

*Section 3: Platforms and Interfaces*
11. Music Videos and Video Games: Radiohead's Kid A Mnesia Exhibition 
/(Mathias Bonde Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark)/
12. Transmedia and Intertextual Hauntology: Steven Wilson's “Drive Home” 
and 505 Games' /Last Day of June/ /(Lori Burns and Patrick Armstrong, 
University of Ottawa, Canada)/
13. Music Video's Forays into Online Interactive Concerts: /Fortnite/'s 
Ariana Grande and Travis Scott Events /(Carol Vernallis, Stanford 
University, USA)/
14. Enacting Virtual Boundaries: Music Video and the Changing 
Technological Landscape (Eugy Han, Stanford University, USA, and Saul 
Quintero, UCLA, USA)
15. Traveling Sounds, Embodied Responses: Aesthetic Reflections on 
TikTok /(Berenike Jung, University of Southampton, UK)/

*PRAISE FOR /TRAVELING MUSIC VIDEOS/*

“No longer confined to cable television or YouTube, music videos are 
constantly migrating to platforms as diverse as TikTok, commercials, VR, 
and video games, picking up remedial attributes native to each of these 
platforms along their journey. /Traveling Music Videos /provides a 
valuable roadmap for scholars to find their way into, through, and 
around this sprawling audiovisual ecosystem.”

-- *Brad Osborn, Professor of Music Theory, University of Kansas, USA*

“More than a decade after MTV dropped ‘music television’ from its logo, 
the music video as cultural object has moved from the postmodern flow of 
linear television to digital platforms and other spaces of exhibition. 
Introducing the concept of ‘music video traffic,’ /Traveling Music 
Videos/ presents fifteen essays that use productive case studies to 
follow the music video in its trajectory across various media, from 
YouTube and TikTok to art galleries and video games. Moreover, the 
book//demonstrates the continued relevance of the music video as an 
object of cultural analysis in the study of music and media, both 
aesthetically and politically.”

-- *Jaap Kooijman, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of 
Amsterdam, the Netherlands*

“Music videos have been an independent art form for more than forty 
years now. They stand apart from the musical recordings upon which they 
are based, as well as from cinema and television. They are often 
characterized as much by formal experimentation as by commercial 
considerations. But in our current media environment, music videos have 
promiscuously intermingled with other expressive forms, and have 
multiplied on all sorts of media platforms. /Traveling Music Videos/ 
explores these interactions, giving us an up-to-the-minute account of 
the cutting edge of both art and entertainment.”

-- *Steven Shaviro, author of /The Rhythm Image/*

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