Hostname: page-component-788cddb947-55tpx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-10-15T09:10:28.479Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Music video use and educational achievement: a Swedish study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Extract

Almost since their inception film and television have employed music as background accompaniment. Despite this obvious fact, the significance of such musical accompaniment has been underestimated by most researchers (see Tagg 1979). The contemporary conjunction of video technology, communication satellites and cable-TV has created a media environment in which television featuring music videos has thrived, and in which media researchers are no longer able to ignore the synchronisation of aural and visual content. While the idea of synchronising musical and visual presentation is itself not new (see Aufderheide 1986), its realisation in the modern music video presents those seeking to describe and explain media behaviour with a new set of problems and tasks.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aufderheide, P. 1986. ‘Music videos: the look of the sound’, Journal of Communication, 36 (1), pp. 5778Google Scholar
Bourdieu, P. 1980. ‘The aristocracy of culture’, Media, Culture and Society, 2 (3) 07CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bourdieu, P. 1984. Distinction (London)Google Scholar
Bourdieu, P. and Passeron, J.-C. 1978. Reproduction In Education, Society and Culture (London)Google Scholar
Brown, J. D. and Campbell, K. 1986. ‘Rock and gender in music videos’, Journal of Communication, 30 (1), pp. 94106CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, J. D., Campbell, K. and Fischer, L. 1986. ‘American adolescents and music videos’, Gazette, 37, pp. 1932Google Scholar
Burnett, R. 1987. ‘The global jukebox’, in Forskning om populärkultur, ed. Carlsson, U. (Göteborg)Google Scholar
Caplan, R. E. 1985. ‘Violent program content in music video’, Journalism Quarterly, 62 (1), pp. 144–7Google Scholar
Carey, J. F. 1969. ‘Changing courtship patterns in the popular song’, American Journal of Sociology, 74 (05), pp. 720–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chang, B. G. 1986. ‘A hypothesis on the screen. MTV and/as (postmodern) signs’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 10 (1), pp. 70–3CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cole, R. R. 1971. ‘Top songs in the sixties: a content analysis of popular lyrics’, American Behavioural Scientist, 14, pp. 389400Google Scholar
Coleman, J. S. 1961. The Adolescent Society (Glencoe)Google Scholar
Dembo, R. 1972. ‘Gratifications found in media by British teenage boys’, Journalism Quarterly, 50, pp. 517–26Google Scholar
Dembo, R. 1973. ‘Life-style and media use among English working class youths’, Gazette, 18, pp. 2436CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dembo, R. and Hewitt, D. 1974. ‘A subcultural account of media effectsHuman Relations, 27 (1), pp. 2541Google Scholar
DiMaggio, P. and Useem, M. 1978. ‘Social class and arts consumption’, Theory and Society, 5, pp. 141–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elg, P.-E. and Roe, K. 1986. ‘The music of the spheres: satellites and music video content’, NORDICOM, 2, pp. 1519Google Scholar
Fiske, J. 1986. ‘MTV: post-structural post modern’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 10 (1), pp. 74–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Flodin, B., Hedinsson, E. and Roe, K. 1982. ‘The primary school panel: a descriptive report’, Media Panel Report (Lund)Google Scholar
Frith, S. 1978. The Sociology of Rock (London)Google Scholar
Frith, S. 1981. Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and The Politics of Rock 'n' Roll (New York)Google Scholar
Fry, V. H. and Fry, D. L. 1986. ‘MTV: the 24-hour commerical’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 10 (1), pp. 2933CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hardt, H. 1986. ‘MTV: towards visual domination’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 10 (1), pp. 64–5Google Scholar
Hargreaves, D. H. 1967. Social Relations In A Secondary School (London)Google Scholar
Hartman, J. K. 1987. ‘I want my AD-TV’, Popular Music and Society, 11 (2), pp. 1724Google Scholar
Hedman, L. and Holmlöv, P. G. 1986. Kabel-TV I Sverige (Stockholm)Google Scholar
Horton, D. 1957. ‘The dialogue of courtship in popular songs’, American Journal of Sociology, 52 (05), pp. 563–8Google Scholar
Hultén, O. 1985. ‘Elektroniska medier’, NORDICOM-Nytt, 3, pp. 117Google Scholar
Kaplan, E. A. 1986. ‘History, the historical spectator and gender address in music television’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 10 (1), pp. 314Google Scholar
Kaplan, E. A. 1987. Rocking Around The Clock (London)Google Scholar
Katz, E., Blumler, J. and Gurevitch, M. 1974. ‘Utilization of mass communication by the individual’, in The Uses of Mass Communication, ed. Blumler, J. and Katz, E. (Beverly Hills)Google Scholar
Levy, M. and Windahl, S. 1985. ‘The concept of audience activity’, in Media Gratifications Research: Some Current Perspectives ed. Rosengren, K. E. and Palmgreen, P. (London)Google Scholar
Morley, D. 1980. ‘Reconceptualizing the media audience’, C.C.C.S. Paper Sp. 9. (Birmingham)Google Scholar
Morse, M. 1986. ‘Postsynchronising rock music and television’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 10 (1), pp. 1528CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murdock, G. and Phelps, G. 1973. Mass Media and The Secondary School (London)Google Scholar
Roe, K. 1983. Mass Media and Adolescent Schooling: Conflict or Co-Existence? (Stockholm)Google Scholar
Roe, K. 1985. ‘Swedish youth and music: listening patterns and motivations’, Communication Research, 12 (3), pp. 353–62Google Scholar
Roe, K. 1987. ‘Adolescents video use: a structural-cultural approach’, American Behavioural Scientist, 30 (5), pp. 522–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roe, K. and Johnsson-Smaragdi, U. 1987. ‘The Swedish “mediascape” in the 1980's’, European Journal of Communication, 2 (3), pp. 357–70CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rosenbaum, J. and Prinsky, L. 1987. ‘Sex, violence and rock 'n' roll’, Popular Music and Society, 11 (2), pp. 7989CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sherman, B. L. and Dominick, J. R. 1986. ‘Violence and sex in music videos’, Journal of Communication, 36 (1), pp. 7993Google Scholar
Sun, S.-W. and Lull, J. 1986. ‘The adolescent audience for music videos and why they watch’, Journal of Communication, 36 (1), pp. 115–25Google Scholar
Tagg, P. 1979. Kojak, 50 Seconds of Television Music (Göteborg)Google Scholar
Tagg, P. 1987. ‘Musicology and the semiotics of popular music’, Semiotica, 66 (1/3), pp. 279–98Google Scholar
Williams, R. 1976. ‘Developments in the sociology of culture’, Sociology, 10 (2), pp. 497506CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, R. 1981. Culture (London)Google ScholarPubMed
Wolfe, A. S. 1983. ‘Rock on cable, on MTV, music television’, Popular Music and Society, 9 (1), pp. 4150CrossRefGoogle Scholar