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Talkies
The beginning of talkies started the idea of producing music videos, accompanying music with visual performances, the Jazz singer being the first ever talking film went on to inspire the likes of Singing in the rain and many more musical films. -
Saint louis blues
In 1929 what is concidered to be the first piece of music accompanied by a performance without a narrative strcuture was created, this was Bessie Smith singing St.Louis Blues. -
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History of Music Videos
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Visual jukebox
The visual jukebox, this was a creation used to display live performances accompanied by music and began to create more interest in live performance. -
The Beatles, A Hard day's night
Directed by Richard Lester, a feature length film was created with scenes compiled of what would later become modern music videos to Beatles songs. Films in the same vain include Michael Jacksons Moonwalker. -
Subteranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan was possibly the first musican to create a music video not centred around performance, his video to Subterranean Homesick Blues features him (In a rather Bretchtian style) using plaquareds. -
Bohemain Rhapsodhy
Bohemian Rhapsody was possibly the first modern music video to display both performance and narrative. The classic video was made becuase the nine minute song was told to be un-radio freidnly and not played over the radio. In response to this Queen created the short video. -
MTV
The channel MTV was created so as to boost and give more credibility to artists. -
First aired video
The first ever music video to be aired on MTV. -
Thriller
Thriller was made by Michael Jackson, it was a strong cinematic video and began to inspire music videos that possessed narratives. -
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson was the first ever ethnic musican to air a music video on MTV and had such success with the Billie Jean music video that it delivered more credibility to MTV and influenced what can be called the modern music video. -
MTV music awards
The MTV music awards was created to act as an informal version of the grammys. It was a sign of the success that MTV and music videos in general had arrisen to. -
MTV movie awards
In 1992 MTV aired the movie awards, MTV started to become more centered on reality tv and other shows such as the Tom Grene show over music videos. -
Today
Today music videos are a staple of the music industry, with websites such as Youtube they are easily accessable for audiences and essentially everysong features an accompanying music video.
