Perhaps the earliest identifiable predecessor of the music video is “The Little Lost Child,” which in 1894 was exhibited as an “illustrated song.” Its delivery of a narrative through projected still images accompanied by live piano was like nothing its audiences had experienced before, with an emotional power greater than the sum of its visual and musical parts.

     This was a brand new technology, and indeed, like any cultural history, that of the music video is also a technological history, one advanced by film, broadcast television, cable television, and in our time, internet streaming, which stayed the form’s looming prospect of pop-cultural irrelevance. Now, in the twenty-twenties, we must ask ourselves this: when TikTok users post themselves dancing, zooming in on pancakes, or skateboarding while drinking Ocean Spray, is it a music video?

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