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Pop Up Video: the new historicism
Abstract: The VH1 TV series Pop Up Video recapitulates earlier aesthetic forms such as the silent film while at the same time exemplifying recent economically ......(Continue Reading) Even our enemies deserve music: Michael Franti and other young artists are spearheading a new generation of politically engaged musicians. Jeff Chang charts
In New York's hermetic world of music and fashion, it's been the year of the throwback, a post--11 September retreat to the familiar and comfortable....(Continue Reading)Avril Lavigne: does this pop punkette deserve a Grammy, or to be grounded? - Music Debate - Let Go - Brief Article - Illustration
Back when Iggy Pop was rolling around in broken glass, nobody imagined that punk rock could be a cash cow. Cut to last April, when a freshly scrubbed ......(Continue Reading)Games without frontiers: Jason Cowley on the return of pop's great experimentalist - Music - Sound Recording Review
In the mid-1990s, I was despatched to report on a festival of new media at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. This was before the real ascendancy of ......(Continue Reading)Prime-time hate from Arafat TV: Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority is producing slick music videos and other agitprop that encourages Arab children
The five-minute video clip could have been produced by Jennifer Lopez to the music of Pink Floyd. It is professional, dreamy and haunting. It begins ......(Continue Reading)
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