03035nam 2200577Ia 450 991081667660332120230617004523.01-55652-680-6(CKB)1000000000341446(EBL)295019(OCoLC)437181703(SSID)ssj0000263035(PQKBManifestationID)12041815(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263035(PQKBWorkID)10271557(PQKB)10854340(MiAaPQ)EBC295019(Au-PeEL)EBL295019(CaPaEBR)ebr10173874(CaONFJC)MIL536435(EXLCZ)99100000000034144620070709d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTV-a-go-go[electronic resource] rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol /Jake Austen1st ed.Chicago Chicago Review Pressc20051 online resource (386 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-306-05184-3 1-55652-572-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-351) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Rock Around the Box: Proto TV Rock and the Order of St. Sullivan; 2 Lip-Synch Traces: Dick Clark, Jack Good, and TV Dance Shows; 3 Faking the Band: Keeping It Unreal with Monkees, Partridges, and Their Play Pals; 4 The Hippest Trip in Town: Black-on-Black Music TV; 5 Never Mind the Bollocks: Here's the Chipmunks!: Rock 'n' Roll Cartoons; 6 Rock Concert: 1970's TV Rock; 7 BEEF BEEF BEEF BEEF BALONEY!: Punk Rock on TV; 8 Video Vanguard: MTV, Music Videos, and the History of Rock 'n' Roll on TV9 Idol Bands Are the Devil's Workshop: Rock 'n' Roll Reality TV 10 Michael Jackson: Chronicle of a Life on TV; Appendix 1: International TV Rock; Appendix 2: Rock 'n' Roll TV Guide; Source Notes; IndexFrom 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, television as this critical look brilliantly shows has 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 likeRock music on televisionMusic televisionUnited StatesHistory and criticismRock music on television.Music televisionHistory and criticism.791.45/6578Austen Jake1608277MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816676603321TV-a-go-go3934942UNINA