Music on TV Stage

Theatre, Musical and Opera have its stage located at beautiful buildings, nice and majestic architectonic pieces. And the public need to go to its sites if they want to see some specific music performance. They go, they pay, they take a sit, they enjoy. But there is another stage which spectators can see staying at home, for free: TV’s stage. This paper talks about the music performance in television, specifically in the stage of popular music TV shows. Therefore, this work analyzes the evolution of these performances on the public Spanish television (TVE and La 2): videos, provocation, genre roles, esthetic, social context... The stage as a narrative element of the music TV shows has been changing over the years. MTV, YouTube, Operación Triunfo and Big Brother phenomenon are some of the factors which have influenced in the evolution of the use and the meaning of this stage.