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Music Videos

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Music videos are a particularly powerful and complicated maker practice. They combine the complexities of both clever song writing techniques with often fast-paced video editing, that tells a story or provides a visually stimulating counterpoint to the music. But for millennials and those growing up after the launch of MTV in 1981, the format has become part-and-parcel to media consumptions habits. 

What music videos, particularly pop and hip-hop, offer though as a pedagogical tool is their catchy, repetitive song structure that repeats choruses and act as a mnemonic device. Moreover the lyrical rhyme system of storytelling information or rhetorical statements provide an emotionally engaging and easy-to-follow logical structure.

Amongst the organizations, they're both examples of completely original songs as well as parody songs, that use pre-existing songs as a base to change the lyrical content or original meaning. For example, the music video Fear the Boom and Bust is an original song that uses hip-hop tropes to analyze opposing economic philosophies of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keyes. The playful song helps to make the dry subject more fun while the simple storyline of the video helps to illustrate their opposing arguments and lifestyles. 


Black and Yellow - AnCap Remix on the other hand uses a pre-existing popular song by Wiz Khalifa to give it new meaning. While the original song referred to the "Black and Yellow" of Pittsburg Steelers, in the remix it's used to refer to the colors of the Anarcho-Capitalist flag. So the remix reappropriates the rallying spirit of the original and directs that energy towards defining an ingroup identity of what it means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist.

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Contents of this annotation:

  1. "FA$T CA$H: Easy Credit & the Economic Crash" - (Music Video by Dorian Electra)

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Contents of this tag:

  1. "FA$T CA$H: Easy Credit & the Economic Crash" - (Music Video by Dorian Electra)
  2. Symphony of Science - Our Biggest Challenge (Climate Change Music Video)
  3. George Carlin remix - Save the Trees
  4. Firstday Fast - (Birthday X Spoof) - Farid Music
  5. it gets better-----a music video by rebecca drysdale
  6. I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video)
  7. "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
  8. Reading Rainbow Remixed | In Your Imagination | PBS Digital Studios
  9. Roll With The Flow by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video )
  10. Blurred Lines Parody Defined Lines Swaps Genders | What's Trending Now
  11. Black And Yellow - AnCap Remix
  12. Supply & Demand Rap: WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP by Dorian Electra ( Official Music Video )
  13. Chow Down (at Chick-fil-A)
  14. Rebel Music: Native America | Nataanii Means Performs "Genocide"
  15. Thank You Hater! - by Clever Pie and Isabel Fay
  16. Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

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