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Author Austen, Jake.

Title TV-a-go-go : rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol / Jake Austen.

Publication Info. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2005]
©2005

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index.
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Summary From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, televisionas this critical look brilliantly showshas done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining but patently fake manner. The dichotomy of fake and real music as it is portrayed on television is presented in detail through many generations of rock music: the Monkees shared the charts with the Beatles, Tupac and Slayer fans voted for corny American Idols, and shows like Shindig! and Soul Train somehow captured the unhinged energy of rock far more effectively than most long-haired guitar-smashing acts. Also shown is how TV has often delighted in breaking the rules while still mostly playing by them: Bo Diddley defied Ed Sullivan and sang rock and roll after he had been told not to, the Chipmunks' subversive antics prepared kids for punk rock, and things got out of hand when Saturday Night Live invited punk kids to attend a taping of the band Fear. Every aspect of the idiosyncratic history of rock and TV and their peculiar relationship is covered, including cartoon rock, music programming for African American audiences, punk on television, Michael Jackson's life on TV, and the tortured history of MTV and its progeny.
Subject Rock music on television.
Music television -- United States -- History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- General.
Music television. (OCoLC)fst01030616
Rock music on television. (OCoLC)fst01736362
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Austen, Jake. TV-a-go-go. 1st ed. Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2005 1556525729 9781556525728 (DLC) 2005000514 (OCoLC)57422628
ISBN 9781556526800 (electronic bk.)
1556526806 (electronic bk.)
1306051843 (electronic bk.)
9781306051842 (electronic bk.)
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