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.

Introduction by Kathrin Dreckmann and Elfi Vomberg
I MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY: THE BEGINNING OF HYBRID MEDIA
1 Music Video and Its Convergence Potential: From the Hybrid to the Permeable
Henry Keazor, Heidelberg University, Germany
2 Sound & Vision: Early Artists’ Video and Music
Chris Meigh-Andrews, University of Central Lancashire, UK
3 The Process of Creating Was More Important Than the Object: Interview with Ulrike Rosenbach
II MEDIA ARCHIVES ON HYBRIDS
4 It Belongs in a Museum? Music Videos in Danish Museum Exhibitions
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
5 “No Returns for Dislike”: How Music Videos and Video Art Entered the Living Room in the 1980s
Linnea Semmerling, Düsseldorf Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI), Germany
6 An Aura with Pencil, Brushes, and Pixels: Interview with Wulf Herzogenrath,
III HYBRID IMAGINES: MEDIA AESTHETICS BETWEEN POP AND IDENTITY
7 “You Need To Calm Down”—Stardom and Cancel Culture: The Music Video as an Audiovisual Protest Poster
Elfi Vomberg, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
8 Facing the Lens of the Camera: Bodies, Self-portraiture, Portraiture, and Identity in Women Artists’ Video
Laura Leuzzi, Robert Gordon University, University of Abertay, UK
9 Spirit of Creation—Between Documenting, Expressing, and Archiving: Interview with AnAkA
IV AESTHETICS OF POPULAR MEDIA HYBRIDS
10 Trans* Bowie…Trans* Prince
Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, USA
11 “Black Queen and King”: Iconographies of Self-empowerment, Canon, and Pop in the Current Music Video
Kathrin Dreckmann, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
12 Audiovisual Art Is About Hybridization: Interview with Barbara London
V FUTURE AESTHETICS ON HYBRID MEDIA
13 Music Video Distortion and Posthuman Technogenesis
Kristen Lillvis, St. Catherine University, USA
14 Untimely Futures and the Art of Revolutionary Life
Jami Weinstein, Linköping University, Sweden
15 Feeling Closer to the Track—The Representation of Blackness in Music Video: Interview with Modu Sesay
VI MEDIA ART HYBRIDS
16 Hold Up: Mapping the Boundaries of Music Video and Video Art
Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
17 But Still... Is It Art? Contemporary Music Video, Art (Discourse), and Authority—Revisited
Maren Butte, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
18 Time-based Media Art in Music Video—One Does Something the Other Cannot: Interview with Julia Stoschek
Biographies
Index