Tom Warren

Music videos are signs of their times, integral parts of their contemporary culture, available worldwide, produced worldwide û a nucleus of the global entertainment industry. In this brilliant book, musical world culture meets an icon of German industrial culture. The catalog accompanying the major exhibition at the V÷lklinger H³tte World Cultural Heritage Site is devoted to the history and present of music videos. In the numerous text contributions, musical, artistic and filmic quality are illuminated as well as current topics: AI, climate change, political, psychological and physical violence, and gender issues of all kinds. The examples span from early forms of short music film to QueenÆs Bohemian Rhapsody from 1975 to empowerment scenes of the 2020s by Lady Gaga, BeyoncÚ or The Carters. The result is a global panorama of the genre and the art form of the music video that has never been realized in this form before.

The book brings together around 90 music videos from more than 30 countries. Among