The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies was updated on May 1, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. As an organic international movement, remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s, and has since grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing numerous forms of media.
The act of recombining pre-existing material brings up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism. This book approaches remix studies from various angles, including sections on history, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and practice, and presents theoretical chapters alongside case studies of remix projects. The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners, as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom.
Table of Contents
Introduction Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, xtine burrough
Part I: History
1. Remix and the Dialogic Engine of Culture: A Model for Generative Combinatoriality Martin Irvine
2. A Rhetoric of Remix Scott H. Church
3. Toward a Remix Culture: An Existential Perspective Vito Campanelli
4. An Oral History of Sampling: From Turntables to MashupsKembrew McLeod
5. Can I Borrow Your Proper Name? Remixing Signatures and the Contemporary Author Cicero da Silva
6. The Extended Remix: Rhetoric and history Margie Borschke
7. Culture and Remix: A Theory on Cultural Sublation Eduardo Navas
Part II: Aesthetics
8. Remix Strategies in Social Media Lev Manovich
9. Remixing Movies and Trailers Before and After the Digital Age Nicola Maria Dusi
10. Remixing the Plague of Images: Video Art from Latin America in a Transnational Context Erandy Vergara
11. Race & Remix: The Aesthetics of Race in the Visual & Performing Arts Tashima Thomas
12. Digital Poetics and Remix Culture: From the Artisanal Image to the Immaterial Image Monica Tavares
13. The End of an Aura: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Haunting of Hip-hop Roy Christopher
14. Appropriation is Activism Byron Russell
Part III: Ethics
15. The Emerging Ethics of Networked Culture Aram Sinnreich
16. The Panopticon of Ethical Video Remix Practice Mette Birk
17. Cutting Scholarship Together/Apart: Rethinking the Political-Economy of Scholarly Book Publishing Janneke Adema
18. Copyright and Fair Use in Remix: From Alarmism to Action Patricia Aufderheide
19. I Thought I Made A Vid, But Then You Told Me That I Didn’t: Aesthetics and Boundary Work in the Fan Vidding Community Katharina Freund
20. Peeling The Layers of the Onion: Authorship in Mashup and Remix Cultures John Logie
21. remixthecontext (a theoretical fiction) Mark Amerika
Part IV: Politics
22. A Capital Remix Rachel O’Dwyer
23. Remix Practices and Activism: A Semiotic Analysis of Creative Dissent Paolo Peverini
24. Political Remix Video as a Vernacular Discourse Olivia Conti
25. Locative Media as Remix Conor McGarrigle
26. The Politics of John Lennon’s “Imagine”: Contextualizing the Roles of Mashups and New Media in Political Protest J. Meryl Krieger
27. Détournement as a Premise of the Remix from Political, Aesthetic, and Technical Perspectives Nadine Wanono
28. The New Polymath (Remixing Knowledge) Rachel Falconer
Part V: Practice
29. Crises of Meaning in Communities of Creative Appropriation: A Case Study of the 2010 RE/Mixed Media Festival Tom Tenney
30. Of “REAPPROPRIATIONS”Gustavo Romano
31. Aesthetics of Remix: Networked Interactive Objects and Interface Design Jonah Brucker-Cohen
32. Reflections on the Amen Break: A Continued History, an Unsettled Ethics Nate Harrison
33. Going Crazy with Remix: A Classroom Study by Practice via Lenz v. Universal xtine burrough and Dr. Emily Erickson
34. A Remix Artist and AdvocateDesiree D’Alessandro
35. Occupy / Band Aid Mashup: “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”Owen Gallagher
36. Remixing the Remix Elisa Kreisinger
37. A Fair(y) Use Tale Eric Faden
38. An Aesthetics of Deception in Political Remix Video Diran Lyons
39. Radical Remix: Manifestoon Jesse Drew
40. In Two Minds Kevin Atherton
