Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on
how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform
various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural
industries. 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,
art 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 and bodily politics of contemporary production to the
transmedia logic of visual albums and video games-the individual
chapters map the ways music video is continually reconfiguring itself.
The volume tracks music video's audiovisual itineraries, maps its
intermedia routes, and tackles the impact that it has on our current
media ecosystem.