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Schmidt, Patricia L.

Thinking inside the box: In search of music-video culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thinking inside the box: In search of music-video culture.
Author:	Schmidt, Patricia L.
Description:	249 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Carol A. Muller.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2020.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Music.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3179804
ISBN:	9780542200458

Thinking inside the box: In search of music-video culture.
Schmidt, Patricia L.

Thinking inside the box: In search of music-video culture. - 249 p.

Adviser: Carol A. Muller.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2005.

The core of this dissertation is formed by ethnography I conducted with teenagers in the eastern United States to examine the development of music-video cultures and to discuss the medium's overwhelming influence on the adolescent imagination. Out of the materials and experiences from this ethnography, I generate a working definition of music-video culture and cultural practice and I explore the dynamics of ethnography in media cultures and the ways in which it challenges ethnomusicologists to think differently about participant-observation, fieldnotes, and other traditional anthropological methods. Additionally, I develop a model for the analysis of individual music-video texts, building upon recent scholarly contributions to media and music theory as well as integrating participants' understanding of salient audio-visual parameters. Throughout the project, I examine the ways in which music-video texts and programming shape and determine ways of living and being for teenage participants, at the same time that I discuss audio-viewing as both active and purposeful. I argue that teens exhibit a powerful imaginative engagement with music-video texts and that we may look to the relatively secure realm of the imagination as the site of their engagement. I further suggest that music video constructs different and conflicting senses of duration (the passing of time), history (time past), and experience (the present). Through the implication of a collective memory, in particular, music-video programming orders audio-viewers' sense of history, and effectively disciplines music-video cultural participants as such. Finally, I examine the ways in which music-video representations of the body influence and affect female teenage audio-viewers. Specifically, I examine the affects of music video's relentless representation of unrealistic body images and the mechanisms by which these representations naturalize ambivalence and self-harm.

ISBN: 9780542200458Subjects--Topical Terms:

227185
Music.

Thinking inside the box: In search of music-video culture.
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