Pop music as a symptom: Dissonances between jazz and contemporary videoclip

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  • Marcelo Jaume Universidad de Valencia

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https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.18.16847

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Pop music, jazz, videoclip, symptom

Abstract

Jazz has today, especially since its establishment in the academic field at the end of the 1980s, an ambiguous position regarding popular music. This particular demarcation is also evident in its anomalous relationship with the videoclip, the dominant narrative in popular music and where jazz does not have a usual representational space, despite its previous prominence through formats such as soundies and scopitones. In defiance of the relatively frequent video recordings of concerts and promotional teasers, the videoclip as an autonomous aesthetic discourse is not widespread. The main objective of this text is to examine critically the reasons for this relationship, with special attention to the European context. For this purpose, I will analyze several examples and consider issues such as the notion of narrative associated with instrumental music, the autonomy of video clip language and the relationship between jazz and other musical genres.

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Marcelo Jaume, Universidad de Valencia

Marcelo Jaume is a PhD Student in Contemporary Philosophical Thought at the University of Valencia. He has a degree in Art History from the same university and a degree in Musicology from the Conservatorio Superior de Musica of Valencia. He has taught seminars in both centers on aspects related to musical aesthetics. He has participated in national and international conferences and has collaborated in publications such as Fedro , Laooconte , Correspondencias and Cultural Resuena .

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Published

2019-12-29

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Jaume, M. (2019). Pop music as a symptom: Dissonances between jazz and contemporary videoclip. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 18, 133–143. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.18.16847
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Vol. 18 (2019)

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