Sampling Media
Published on 3. April 2014
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-0-19-994931-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book puts sampling studies on the academic map by focusing on sampling as a logic of exchange between audio-visual media. While some recent scholarship has addressed sampling primarily in relation to copyright, this book is a first: a critical study of sampling and remixing across audio-visual media. Of special interest here are works that bring together both audio and visual sampling: music that samples film and television; underground dance and multimedia scenes that rely on sampling; Internet "memes" that repurpose music videos, trailers and news broadcasts; films and videos that incorporate a wide range of sampling aesthetics; and other provocative variations. Comprised of four sections titled "roots," "scenes," "cinema" and "web" this collection digs deep into and across sampling practices that intervene in popular culture from unconventional or subversive perspectives. To this end, Sampling Media extends the conceptual boundaries of sampling by emphasizing its inter-medial dimensions, exploring the politics of sampling practice beyond copyright law, and examining its more marginal applications. It likewise puts into conversation compelling instances of sampling from a wide variety of historical and contemporary, global and local contexts.
Reviews / Votes
With Sampling Media, David Laderman and Laurel Westrup have ushered in a monumental collection that extends and reroutes all previous discussions about sampling in the arts and culture. History, theory, law, technology and creative aesthetics are each explored with serious rigor, yet there is ample room here for the mirth and play that characterize the sampling sport. If you thought you knew what sampling is, this book will make you think again. * Murray Forman, Media and Screen Studies, Northeastern University * Sampling Media is a startlingly insightful collection that explores the wide array of cultural practices associated with sampling culture in all of its vibrant diversity. The essays, which cover a remarkable set of approaches to hybrid media practices from high art to pop culture, are assembled with the nuance and precision of any great playlist. * Virginia Kuhn, Associate Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
44 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-994931-1 (9780199949311)
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Persons
David Laderman is Professor of Film at the College of San Mateo. He has also taught film and media studies at the University of California, Davis, San Francisco State University and Stanford University. His previous publications include Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie (2002) and Punk Slash Musicals: Tracking Slip-Sync on Film (2010).
Laurel Westrup has a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA, where she is currently a Lecturer in Writing Programs. She also teaches courses in Film and Electronic Arts at CSU Long Beach. Her work has appeared in the journals Film and History and Spectator.
Laurel Westrup has a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA, where she is currently a Lecturer in Writing Programs. She also teaches courses in Film and Electronic Arts at CSU Long Beach. Her work has appeared in the journals Film and History and Spectator.
Content
About the Companion Website ; List of Contributors ; Introduction: Into the Remix: the Culture of Sampling ; Laurel Westrup and David Laderman ; PART I: ROOTS ; Chapter 1: Shadow/Play: The Cinematic, Remixed, by David Laderman ; Chapter 2 : Remixing With Rules: Constraint and Potential in Restrictive Remixes, by Richard L. Edwards ; Chapter 3 : "Whatever Rubbish Was at Hand": The Emergence of the Media Sample in Guy Debord's Films, by R.D. Crano ; Chapter 4 : Rigorous Infidelity: Whole Text Sampling in the Curatorial Work of Henri Langlois, Dewey Phillips, and Jean-Francois Lyotard, by Barry Mauer ; PART II: SCENES ; Chapter 5: The Sydney Club Scene and the Sampling of Global Electronic Dance Music Culture, by Ed Montano ; Chapter 6: Piggin' Out! Constructing Spanish Cultural History Through Media Sampling, by Miguel Fernandez Labayen & Vicente Rodriguez Ortega ; Chapter 7: Time Stand Still: Sampling Scenes and Slowing Media, by Ryan Alexander Diduck ; Chapter 8: From Mejico Maxico to Politico: Sampling the Past and the Present in the Mexican Musical Scene, by ; Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste ; PART III: CINEMA ; Chapter 9: Love in the Club: Karaoke Realism in Chinese and Hong Kong Cinema, by Brian Hu ; Chapter 10: Articulating a Hip Hop Sampling Aesthetic Through Film: Music and Memory in Three Hip Hop Documentaries, by Jesse Stewart ; Chapter 11: "Dreamlo-lo-lover Where Are You-u-u?" Sampling as Analysis, Sampling as Symptom, by ; Martin J. Zeilinger ; Chapter 12: (In)appropriation: Productions of Laughter in Contemporary Found Footage Films, by Jaimie Baron ; PART IV: WEB ; Chapter 13: All Work and No Play: Trailer Park, the Mashup, and Industrial Pedagogies, by Jonathan Cohn ; Chapter 14: Popular Culture through the Eyes, Ears, and Fingertips of Fans: Vidders, Anime Music Video Editors, and Their Sources, by Samantha Close ; Chapter 15: How the World is Being Remade: The Case of Antoine Dodson and the Limits of Sampling as Trans-Cultural and Cross-Class Expression, by Corella Di Fede ; Chapter 16: Thinking Through Sampling, Literally, by Laurel Westrup ; Afterword ; Sampling Across the Curriculum ; Laurel Westrup and David Laderman ; Bibliography ; Index