Music-visuality and cinematographic metanarrative: analysis of C. Tangana’s music videos

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https://doi.org/10.62008/ixc/14/02Musico

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C. Tangana, music video, musicovisuality, metanarrative, intertextu, film

Abstract

This article analyzes the music video production of the artist C. Tangana, examining both its typology and its narrative components, discursive codes and transtextual relationships, seeking to find out what strategies are used both in each of the different pieces and in the corpus that among all of them conform to give shape to the particular proposal of the artist. The analysis of the 33 selected music videos reveals an absolute commitment to the music-visual spectacle in which the performative genre coexists with narrative, video artistic and conceptual features. Through innumerable connections to film and the hybridization of styles, formats, conventions and references that define this and other media in the present, these clips make up difficult-to-classify audiovisual pieces in which the artist assumes numerous roles that give him a strong multidimensionality and allow the creation of an own universe linked, to a large extent, to fictions born on the big screen.

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Author Biography

Sergio Albaladejo Ortega, Universidad Católica de Murcia,https://www.ucam.edu/

Sergio Albaladejo Ortega has a PhD in Communication from the Catholic University of Murcia. Professor at the Faculty of Communication of this university, he teaches the subjects 'Audiovisual Fiction', 'Journalism and Film', 'Documentary' and 'Communication and Graphic Art'. His field of research is made up of transmedia narratives, and more specifically transmedia literacy. Likewise, it investigates other lines related to cinematographic and videoludic narration. Recently, he has published the chapters "Game-Based Learning for the Acquisition of Transversal Skills: Preventing and Addressing Hate Speech" (2022), “A Ghost Story: paradigma de la fantasmagoría hipermoderna” (2022), “Expansiones desde la oscuridad: Potencial transmedia en la franquicia videolúdica Little Nightmares” (2021) and “Death Stranding: culmen de la cinemática cinematográfica en entornos videolúdicos” (2020), as well as the papers "El ecosistema mediático de la ficción contemporánea: relatos, universos y propiedades intelectuales a través de los transmedial worlds" (2019) and "Transmedia storytelling and teaching experience in higher education" (2018) and has coordinated the monograph “Cultura ludonarrativa: puntos de encuentro entre los medios tradicionales y los videojuegos” (2020) of the magazine Miguel Hernández Communication Journal. He belongs to the Spanish Association for Communication Research (AE-IC) and to the DIGITALAC research group, where he develops the line of work on Transmedia Narratives.  

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2024-07-15

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Robles Andreu, M. C., & Albaladejo Ortega, S. (2024). Music-visuality and cinematographic metanarrative: analysis of C. Tangana’s music videos. index.Comunicación, 14(2), 241–263. https://doi.org/10.62008/ixc/14/02Musico

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Vol. 14 No. 2 (2024): Disinformation and media trust

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