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Article: Music Video
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- American Decades
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MUSIC VIDEO
Impact
The music video, in which short performances accompany and illustrate songs, appeared out of nowhere in the early 1980s to become the most influential
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and the only new
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art form of the decade. As advertisements for new recordings and as self-promotion for the artist, music videos captured the capitalist spirit of 1980s art. Artistically these videos were a mixed lot, ranging from electrifying to turgid. Most fell somewhere between these extremes
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a typical video was a quirky, dreamlike montage of images (a "minimovie") designed to illustrate fantasies or approximate the live performances of the artist or band. In their cultural impact videos ...
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