Traveling Music Videos

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.