Context: how television creates a virtual community

Fela Kuti: Nigerian music hits the mainstream four decades later



Charlie Parker & Dizzie Gillespie: Jazz begins to go mainstream



Chuck Berry: moving in a "wild" way while playing an instrument, aka rocking and rolling



Danny and the Juniors: a reason why teenagers with transistor radios started to listen to music produced by African-Americans?

note: advance to 1:30 in the video



Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: hip-hop reframes urban consumer culture



Dead Prez: hip-hop reframes politics




The Byrds: television creates a virtual space and reframes the live concert 1



The Byrds: television creates a virtual space and reframes the live concert 2



The Byrds: television creates a virtual space and reframes the live concert 3



Jean Claude Van Damme: action movie superstar



JCVD: a new context (framing) for the action movie superstar, and for masculinity itself

the true nature of analog television

A stable image is produced by a fast-moving "dot".

Merzbow -- 1930

from the album: 1930

Mr. Lif -- Home of the Brave

from the album: Emergency Rations

The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- Take Five

from the album: Time Out

Don Cherry -- Si Ta Ra Ma

from the album: Orient

Don Cherry - Si Ta Ra Ma -da LP Orient (by Franz) by fmorigi

LCD Soundsystem -- I'm Losing my Edge

from the album: Losing my Edge 12"