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Otero Alcántara during his performance “La Bandera Es De Todos," a piece where he wore the Cuban flag for thirty days.

Cuban dissident artists behind hit protest song ‘Patria y Vida’ sentenced to prison

Rapper Maykel Castillo “El Osorbo” and visual artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara were sentenced to prison by a Cuban court last week for his involvement with an opposition movement on the island.

Music, lyrics and video were already a perfect combination for the Internet generation when Cee-Lo Green wanted to drive people away from cat videos toward something they could own.

Why lyric videos have taken the music world by storm

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A man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the miltant group ISIS, during what would have been his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet.

ISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing

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DC rappers return from their Kickstarter trip to North Korea with this music video

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As MTV enters 30th year, nostalgia for return to music videos

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Reliving the Golden Age of MTV

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Recently, Kurt Andersen looked back at MTV’s Golden Age with Craig Marks, author of I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution.

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Craig Marks: I Want My MTV

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Thirty years ago, hardly anyone knew what a music video was.

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You’re on candid camera… and making a music video

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The Takeaway speaks with British rock band The Get Out Clause. They’ve made innovative use of CCTV cameras in their home city of Manchester to create a music video for their new song.