![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Kino Lorber package includes many celebrated names of the period, such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Calloway, and Hoagy Carmichael. More benignly, would Beyoncé’s Lemonade have the same stature and resonance among the records of the past decade without its corresponding, densely symbolic “visual album”? It was when the video for the song came out, with its jumbled footage from random political protests, and especially its (accidental?) setting outside the site of a historic lynching, that the story heated up and the song climbed to No. Take the current debate over Jason Aldean’s country music anthem “Try That in a Small Town”-a song that came out in May and went many weeks without attracting too much attention to its racial dog whistles and overtones of vigilantism. But music videos, at every stage of development, have always served as snapshots of the zeitgeist. ![]() It’s true that each cultural artifact should be received on its own terms, not reduced to what it “led to” nearer our lifetimes. These are richer social texts, they claim. In their notes to the box set, the film studies (rather than pop music) experts who are Soundies’ curators seem eager to downplay the clips’ status as precursors to the music video. ![]()
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