The list below consists of selected books. It is by no means exhaustive. Publications will be added accordingly. If you have a suggestion, please contact one of the editors, xtine burrough, Owen Gallagher, or Eduardo Navas. We will gladly consider it.
Remix Related
Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Translated by B. Massumi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.
Bennett, Andrew. The Author. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.
Bolter, Jay and Grusin, Richard. Remediation: Understanding Media. MIT Press, 1998.
Burgess, Jean, and Joshua Green. YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.
Boon, Marcus. In Praise of Copying. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Bourriaud, Nicolas. Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Lukas & Sternberg, 2005.
Brewster, Bill and Frank Broughton. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey. London: Headline, 2006.
Bryant, John. The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Cox, David. Sign Wars: The Culture Jammers Strike Back. Australia: LedaTape, 2005.
Evans, David, ed. Appropriation. London & Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel & MIT Press, 2009.
Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
—. Editor. The Sound Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Tapscott, Don and Anthony D. Williams. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. New York, NY: Penguin, 2006.
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Eshun, Kodwo. More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books, 1998.
Flusser, Vilém. Into the Universe of Technical Images. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Goldsmith, Kenneth. Uncreative Writing. New York, NY: Colombia University Press, 2011.
Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007.
Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.
Jenkins, Henry. Fans, Blogger, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006.
Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
—. Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York, NY: Penguin, 1999.
Manovich ,Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
—. Software Takes Command. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Poschardt, Ulf. DJ Culture, translated by Shaun Whiteside. London: Quartet Books Ltd, 1998.
Reynolds, Simon. Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past. New York: Farber & Farber, 2011.
Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
Schäfer, Mirko Tobias. Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2008.
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights And Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2001.
Remix Culture
Berry, David M. Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source. London: Pluto Press, 2008.
Borschke, Margie. “Rethinking the Rhetoric of Remix: Copies and Material Culture in Digital Networks” PhD dissertation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2012.
Boyle, James. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Bruns, Axel. Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2008.
Crews, Kenneth. “The Law of Fair Use and the Illusion of Fair-Use Guidelines.” Ohio State Law Journal 62 (2001): 98.
Decherney, Peter. Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Evans, David. (2009). Appropriation: Documents of Contemporary Art. MIT Press: USA.
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York Univeristy Press, 2006.
Lessig, Lawrence. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. New York, NY: Vintage, 2002.
—. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. New York: Penguin, 2004.
—. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. New York: Penguin, 2008.
Mason, Matt. The Pirate’s Dilemma. How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism. New York, NY: Free Press, 2009.
McLeod, Kembrew. Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
McLeod, Kembrew, and Peter DiCola. Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
McLeod, Kembrew, and Rudolf Kuenzli, editors. Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
Miller, Paul D. Rhythm Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004.
—. Sound Unbound. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.
Veal, Michael. Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2007.
Remix Studies
Amerika, Mark. Remixthebook. Minneapolis and London: Minnesota Press, 2011.
Amerika, Mark. Remixthecontext. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Aufderheide, Patricia, and Peter Jaszi. Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Borshcke, Margie. This Is not A Remix. New York: Bloombury Press, 2017.
Campanelli, Vito. Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society. Amsterdam: Nai Publishers, 2010.
Gallagher, Owen. Reclaiming Critical Remix Video. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Guertin, Carolyn. Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Gunkel, David J. Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics after Remix. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016.
Jenkins, Henry, et. al. (2013) Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture. NYU Press: USA.
Laderman, David and Laurel Westrup. Sampling Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Morales, Aaron. American Mashup: A Popular Culture Reader. London: Pearson, 2012.
Navas, Eduardo. Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling. Wien/New York: Springer, 2012.
Navas, Eduardo. Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough, editors, The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies. New York: Routlege, 2014.
Sinnreich, Aram. Mashed Up: Music, Technology and the Rise of Configurable Culture. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
—. The Piracy Crusade. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
Sonvilla-Weiss, Stefan. Mashup Cultures. Wein/New York: Springer, 2010.
Sullivan, Paul. Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora. London: Reaktion, 2014.
