Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture

by E. Ann Kaplan

Book Overview

The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981. As a unique popular culture form, MTV warrants attention, and in this, the first study of the medium, originally published in 1987, Ann Kaplan examines the cultural context of MTV and its relationship to the history of rock music. The first part of the book focuses on MTV as a commercial institution, on the contexts of production and exhibition of videos, on their similarity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0416333907
• ISBN13: 9780416333909
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Methuen Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.7" x 11.8" x 13.8"