From 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 like Shindig! and Soul Train somehow
captured the unhinged energy of rock far more effectively than most
long-haired guitar-smashing acts. Also shown is how TV has often
delighted in breaking the rules while still mostly playing by them: Bo
Diddley defied Ed Sullivan and sang rock and roll after he had been told
not to, the Chipmunks' subversive antics prepared kids for punk rock,
and things got out of hand when Saturday Night Live invited punk
kids to attend a taping of the band Fear. Every aspect of the
idiosyncratic history of rock and TV and their peculiar relationship is
covered, including cartoon rock, music programming for African American
audiences, punk on television, Michael Jackson's life on TV, and the
tortured history of MTV and its progeny.
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