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Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s song has cause an uproar for its explicit expression of female sexuality.
Low-budget, grassroots video-film efforts are beginning to blossom and will shape the film industry in the long run.
West London group 1011 music group have been banned from making music without police permission.
The music industry, like all other media, can be censored to some extent. So how does this change its output?
Donald Glover’s music video is a multi-layered political statement which aims to kick its audience out of its complacency.
They’re silly, but the singer’s statement pants are an important comment on female storytelling.
In 1997 Pippilotti Rist walked down a street of cars and smashed their windows in a vivaciously feminist call to arms. You might recognise the homage to Risk’s work in Beyoncé’s Lemonade.
MTV may not be the power house it used to be but the music video is flourishing online.
ABC TV’s Rage has so far weathered the storm of digital disruption to remain an important, and nostalgic, part of Australia’s music industry.
The MTV music video awards will be held on Sunday, putting this under-rated genre in the spotlight. Videos are inseparable from music in the digital age and the best examples deserve to be taken seriously as works of art.
The small, geographically isolated country of Iceland is a leader in technology, environmentalism, experimental music and feminism. And Bjork, one of its most famous exports, mines all these themes in her new Sydney exhibition.
Prince had ‘Purple Rain.’ Michael Jackson had ‘Thriller.’ And now Beyoncé has her own self-reflective masterpiece.
The first film to see The Beatles in technicolour is 50 years old.
In the same week American rapper Nicki Minaj released Anaconda, a music video dedicated to celebrating “the butt”, US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released a video, Shake It Off, accidentally dedicated…
Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced this week that from October all music videos shown in the United Kingdom will carry a movie-style age-appropriateness rating, stating whether each is appropriate…
The classic sound many of us imagine when the word synthesiser is mentioned is the sound of the Moog – the warm, solid propulsive groove of its bass sound and the distinctive sweep of its patented lowpass…
In 1981, MTV was launched with a woman in a tinsel wig being beamed to Earth (well, she actually slid awkwardly down a plastic tube) to join men in shiny suits playing wood-grained synthesisers. The Buggles…
One Direction got lucky this year, taking two awards away from the Brits. One of these was in the new Best British video category, judged by the British public via a live vote over Twitter. And this was…
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Associate Dean: Research and Innovation, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Digital Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Lecturer, Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Popular Music, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Media Arts & Production / Sound & Music Design Program, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, University of Bath
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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