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Notes on video lecture:
Michael Jackson: MTV's Unexpected Boon
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 18, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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initiial                  of MTV
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they determined at the beginning that their audience would be mostly middle-class, mid-              , white kids
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they understood the                        that was available to them
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think of the movie           's World (1992)
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this gives you a good idea of what the early            TV audience was
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lots of mainstream rock with emphasis on the                      guitar base kinds of groups
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almost no            music of any kind
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not too much music that challenged traditional          values
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mostly groups like                   , The Cars, or Boston
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Michael Jackson makes video Billie         
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MTV did        want to play this video
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they argued that their demographic would not be interested in music by Michael Jackson or in most black               
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to a certain extent there was a basis in          for this
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the division in the        between white pop and black rock was quite distinct
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they were basing this information on              trends
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Walter Yetnikoff from CBS
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wanted Billie Jean on MTV, was promoting Michael Jackson
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he knew Michael was a fantastic and engaging             
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Walter said, "If you don't play this video my Michael Jackson, I will pull every video by everyone one of my               "
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CBS was a big label and MTV needed             
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first aired on MTV, March 10,         
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it became such a popular video that people went out and got cable just so they could watch the video
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the popularity of Michael Jackson brought the popularity of MTV up
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you could hear him on the           
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but he was worth watching
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pros and cons associated with the rise of MTV
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pros
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opened up new                      to music in a video
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after they got past the first few years of artists simply people singing the songs on the video
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told an                      story
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better than just hearing the music
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a                      experience
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images had always been important e.g. on            covers
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cons
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having the videos available in that way makes your interpretation and understanding of the music too               
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without it being stated so literally and visually, it leaves the listener's imagination open to meaning in the music that is all there own, i.e. enables the listener to participate as an                     
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when you have the video laid out for you, it shuts that creativity down
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the artists are giving you authoritative images to accompany the music and whatever images you come up with in your head is somehow secondary
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because these videos are             , they tend to prefer people who are photogenic
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music became too dependent on looks and image, not enough on the music
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success became more dependent on how one              instead of how one sounded
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American Singer-Songwriters of the 70s
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Black Pop in the 1970s
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Blaxploitation Soundtracks
The Uniqueness of James Brown
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The Backlash Against Disco
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Continuity Bands in the 1970s
Rock and Roll in the Second Half of the 1970s
U.S. Punk 1967-1975
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American New Wave 1977-80
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The Hippie Aesthetic: 1966-1980
The Rise of MTV
Michael Jackson: MTV's Unexpected Boon
Madonna as Disruptive Shock Artist
Prince and Janet Jackson
Other Groups Who Benefited from MTV
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1970s Progressive Rock Adapts to the 80s
1980's Heavy Metal
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