New Technology : From MTV to YouTube: A Brief History of Music Videos

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MTV isn’t keen on playing music videos these days, but when it did, it helped to define eras and careers, and became a phenomenon in its own right. The music video didn’t simply appear out of nowhere in 1981 when MTV opened. Rather, there were many music videos before this, but few were successful, thanks mainly to only occasional airings on weekly pop shows on TV stations around the world. While music videos are almost exclusively viewed on YouTube these days, this is only the latest stage in the evolution of a movie sub-genre that can be as elaborate as...

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