The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies
2nd Edition
Published on 27. March 2025
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Hardback
662 pages
978-1-032-50910-5 (ISBN)
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The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd Edition comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the interdisciplinary 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 continues to bring up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism, especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence, which relies on remix methods and principles for content production. This book approaches remix studies from various angles, including sections on history, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and practice; and offers theoretical chapters alongside case studies of remix projects. This second edition includes ten new chapters, and nine revised chapters. Reprinted chapters from the first edition are updated with editorial prefaces. This volume offers in-depth insight for long-term relevance among the many interdisciplinary fields that rely on and also contribute to remix studies.
This companion is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners, as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom.
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 continues to bring up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism, especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence, which relies on remix methods and principles for content production. This book approaches remix studies from various angles, including sections on history, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and practice; and offers theoretical chapters alongside case studies of remix projects. This second edition includes ten new chapters, and nine revised chapters. Reprinted chapters from the first edition are updated with editorial prefaces. This volume offers in-depth insight for long-term relevance among the many interdisciplinary fields that rely on and also contribute to remix studies.
This companion is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners, as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, Undergraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
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107 s/w Abbildungen, 83 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 24 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 24 Line drawings, black and white; 83 Halftones, black and white; 107 Illustrations, black and white
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Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
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1337 gr
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978-1-032-50910-5 (9781032509105)
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Persons
Eduardo Navas is an Associate Research Professor of Art and Digital Arts & Media Design in the School of Visual Arts, and Research Faculty in the College of Arts and Architecture's Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) at Pennsylvania State University, USA, where he researches and teaches principles of cultural analytics and digital humanities.
Owen Gallagher is an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Creative Media at Bahrain Polytechnic, where he teaches film, sound, animation, Web media, and design. His lecturing portfolio includes audio and video post-production, 3D animation, and advanced interactive applications. In addition to his academic work, Owen produces and publishes his own remix videos, contributing to both the theoretical and practical dimensions of remix studies and digital media.
xtine burrough is a Professor in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at UT Dallas, USA where she directs LabSynthE, a laboratory for synthetic and electronic poetry. A media artist who works at the intersection of design, intervention, and digital poetry, her portfolio includes time-based media such as screensavers and videos, computational poetry, apps, series-based works for Instagram, interventions on social media platforms and fine art prints.
Owen Gallagher is an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Creative Media at Bahrain Polytechnic, where he teaches film, sound, animation, Web media, and design. His lecturing portfolio includes audio and video post-production, 3D animation, and advanced interactive applications. In addition to his academic work, Owen produces and publishes his own remix videos, contributing to both the theoretical and practical dimensions of remix studies and digital media.
xtine burrough is a Professor in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at UT Dallas, USA where she directs LabSynthE, a laboratory for synthetic and electronic poetry. A media artist who works at the intersection of design, intervention, and digital poetry, her portfolio includes time-based media such as screensavers and videos, computational poetry, apps, series-based works for Instagram, interventions on social media platforms and fine art prints.
Content
Introduction EDUARDO NAVAS, OWEN GALLAGHER, AND 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, Revised SCOTT HADEN CHURCH 3. Toward a Remix Culture: An Existential Perspective VITO CAMPANELLI 4. An Oral History of Sampling: From Turntables to Mashups KEMBREW MCLEOD 5. Can I Borrow Your Proper Name? Remixing Signatures and the Contemporary Author CICERO INACIO DA SILVA 6. The Extended Remix: Rhetoric and History MARGIE BORSCHKE 7. The Roots of Audiovisual Remix in the Works of Francis Doublier, Esfir Shub, and Joseph Cornell ELI HORWATT 8. Algorithmic Archival Remix: Metacreative, Metahistorical, and Metatemporal Considerations Around Jan Bot GRAZIA INGRAVALLE 9. Revisiting Recuts: Fake Film Trailers and Their History KATHLEEN WILLIAMS
PART II: Aesthetics 10. Remix Strategies in Social Media LEV MANOVICH 11. Remixing Movies and Trailers Before and After the Digital Age NICOLA MARIA DUSI 12. Remixing the Plague of Images: Video Art from Latin America in a Transnational Context ERANDY VERGARA 13. Race and Remix: The Aesthetics of Race, Remix, and Monstrous Technologies TASHIMA THOMAS 14. Remix as Adaptation and Regeneration: Eco-Art with African Perspectives Before and After Oil DALE HUDSON 15. The End of an Aura: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Haunting of Hip Hop ROY CHRISTOPHER 16. Generative AI and Remix: Difference and Repetition DAVID J. GUNKEL 17. Digital Poetics and Remix Culture: From the Artisanal Image to the Immaterial Image MONICA TAVARES 18. Culture and Remix: A Theory on Cultural Sublation EDUARDO NAVAS 19. "In Praise of Copying" and the Future of the Copy MARCUS BOON
PART III: Ethics 20. The Emerging Ethics of Networked Culture ARAM SINNREICH 21. The Panopticon of Ethical Video Remix Practice METTE BIRK 22. Cutting Scholarship Together/Apart: Rethinking the Political-Economy of Scholarly Book Publishing JANNEKE ADEMA 23. How Copyright and Fair Use Work in Repurposing Popular Culture PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE AND BRANDON BUTLER 24. 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 25. Anything for Love: Remix as Affective Practice within the Vidding Community LUCIA TRALLI 26. Peeling The Layers of the Onion: Authorship in Mashup and Remix Cultures JOHN LOGIE 27. remixthecontext (a theoretical fiction) MARK AMERIKA 28. Remix in the Age of AI ERIN REILLY AND SAM HEWITT 29. Stealing From or Facilitating Hard-Working Musicians? Remixers' Code of Honor RAGNHILD BROVIG
PART IV: Politics 30. A Capital Remix RACHEL O'DWYER 31. Remix Practices and Activism: A Semiotic Analysis of Creative Dissent PAOLO PEVERINI 32. Political Remix Video as a Vernacular Discourse OLIVIA CONTI 33. Locative Media as Remix CONOR MCGARRIGLE 34. The Politics of John Lennon's "Imagine": Contextualizing the Roles of Mashups and New Media in Political Protest J. MERYL KRIEGER 35. The New Polymath (Remixing Knowledge) RACHEL FALCONER 36. Not Meant for the Listener: Concealed (Political) Sampling in Experimental Electronica HANNES LIECHTI 37. Detournement as a Premise of the Remix from Political, Aesthetic, and Technical Perspectives NADINE WANONO
PART V: Practice 38. Crises of Meaning in Communities of Creative Appropriation: A Case Study of the 2010 RE/Mixed Media Festival TOM TENNEY 39. Of "RE/APPROPRIATIONS" GUSTAVO ROMANO 40. Aesthetics of Remix: Networked Interactive Objects and Interface Design JONAH BRUCKER-COHEN 41. GAN to the Mississippi: Remixing Relations Between Humans and River with Generative Adversarial Networks HEIDI BIGGS 42. Remix Analytic Methods: A Collaborative Approach to Time-Based Media Media Analysis EDUARDO NAVAS, LUKE MEEKEN, KORY J. BLOSE, ROBBIE FRALEIGH, ALEXANDER KORTE, AND EDUARDO DE MOURA 43. Reflections on the Amen Break: A Continued History, an Unsettled Ethics NATE HARRISON 44. Going Crazy with the DMCA: Lenz v. Universal in the Classroom XTINE BURROUGH AND DR. EMILY ERICKSON 45. Occupy / Band Aid Mashup: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" OWEN GALLAGHER 46. Remixing the Remix ELISA KREISINGER 47. A Fair(y) Use Tale ERIC FADEN 48. An Aesthetics of Deception in Political Remix Video DIRAN LYONS 49. Radical Remix Redux: Manifestoon JESSE DREW 50. In Two Minds KEVIN ATHERTON
PART II: Aesthetics 10. Remix Strategies in Social Media LEV MANOVICH 11. Remixing Movies and Trailers Before and After the Digital Age NICOLA MARIA DUSI 12. Remixing the Plague of Images: Video Art from Latin America in a Transnational Context ERANDY VERGARA 13. Race and Remix: The Aesthetics of Race, Remix, and Monstrous Technologies TASHIMA THOMAS 14. Remix as Adaptation and Regeneration: Eco-Art with African Perspectives Before and After Oil DALE HUDSON 15. The End of an Aura: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Haunting of Hip Hop ROY CHRISTOPHER 16. Generative AI and Remix: Difference and Repetition DAVID J. GUNKEL 17. Digital Poetics and Remix Culture: From the Artisanal Image to the Immaterial Image MONICA TAVARES 18. Culture and Remix: A Theory on Cultural Sublation EDUARDO NAVAS 19. "In Praise of Copying" and the Future of the Copy MARCUS BOON
PART III: Ethics 20. The Emerging Ethics of Networked Culture ARAM SINNREICH 21. The Panopticon of Ethical Video Remix Practice METTE BIRK 22. Cutting Scholarship Together/Apart: Rethinking the Political-Economy of Scholarly Book Publishing JANNEKE ADEMA 23. How Copyright and Fair Use Work in Repurposing Popular Culture PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE AND BRANDON BUTLER 24. 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 25. Anything for Love: Remix as Affective Practice within the Vidding Community LUCIA TRALLI 26. Peeling The Layers of the Onion: Authorship in Mashup and Remix Cultures JOHN LOGIE 27. remixthecontext (a theoretical fiction) MARK AMERIKA 28. Remix in the Age of AI ERIN REILLY AND SAM HEWITT 29. Stealing From or Facilitating Hard-Working Musicians? Remixers' Code of Honor RAGNHILD BROVIG
PART IV: Politics 30. A Capital Remix RACHEL O'DWYER 31. Remix Practices and Activism: A Semiotic Analysis of Creative Dissent PAOLO PEVERINI 32. Political Remix Video as a Vernacular Discourse OLIVIA CONTI 33. Locative Media as Remix CONOR MCGARRIGLE 34. The Politics of John Lennon's "Imagine": Contextualizing the Roles of Mashups and New Media in Political Protest J. MERYL KRIEGER 35. The New Polymath (Remixing Knowledge) RACHEL FALCONER 36. Not Meant for the Listener: Concealed (Political) Sampling in Experimental Electronica HANNES LIECHTI 37. Detournement as a Premise of the Remix from Political, Aesthetic, and Technical Perspectives NADINE WANONO
PART V: Practice 38. Crises of Meaning in Communities of Creative Appropriation: A Case Study of the 2010 RE/Mixed Media Festival TOM TENNEY 39. Of "RE/APPROPRIATIONS" GUSTAVO ROMANO 40. Aesthetics of Remix: Networked Interactive Objects and Interface Design JONAH BRUCKER-COHEN 41. GAN to the Mississippi: Remixing Relations Between Humans and River with Generative Adversarial Networks HEIDI BIGGS 42. Remix Analytic Methods: A Collaborative Approach to Time-Based Media Media Analysis EDUARDO NAVAS, LUKE MEEKEN, KORY J. BLOSE, ROBBIE FRALEIGH, ALEXANDER KORTE, AND EDUARDO DE MOURA 43. Reflections on the Amen Break: A Continued History, an Unsettled Ethics NATE HARRISON 44. Going Crazy with the DMCA: Lenz v. Universal in the Classroom XTINE BURROUGH AND DR. EMILY ERICKSON 45. Occupy / Band Aid Mashup: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" OWEN GALLAGHER 46. Remixing the Remix ELISA KREISINGER 47. A Fair(y) Use Tale ERIC FADEN 48. An Aesthetics of Deception in Political Remix Video DIRAN LYONS 49. Radical Remix Redux: Manifestoon JESSE DREW 50. In Two Minds KEVIN ATHERTON