This is not a remix : piracy, authenticity and popular music / Margie Borschke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borschke, Margie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Remixes--History and criticism.

Remixes.

Sound recordings--Social aspects.

Sound recordings.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Popular music.

Music and the Internet.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.

Summary:

Widespread distribution of recorded music via digital networks affects more than just business models and marketing strategies; it also alters the way we understand recordings, scenes, and histories of popular music culture. This is Not a Remix uncovers the analog roots of digital practices and brings the long history of copies and piracy into contact with contemporary controversies about the reproduction, use, and circulation of recordings on the internet. Borschke examines the innovations that have sprung from the use of recording formats in grassroots music scenes, from the vinyl, tape, and acetate that early disco DJs used to create remixes to the mp3 blogs and vinyl revivalists of the 21st century. This is Not a Remix challenges claims that remix culture is a substantially new set of innovations and highlights the continuities and contradictions of the Internet era. Through an historical focus on copy as a property and practice, This is Not a Remix focuses on questions about the materiality of media, its use, and the aesthetic dimensions of reproduction and circulation in digital networks. Through a close look at sometimes illicit forms of composition-including remixes, edits, mashup, bootlegs, and play lists-Borschke ponders how and why ideals of authenticity persist in networked cultures where copies and copying are ubiquitous and seemingly at odds with romantic constructions of authorship. By teasing out unspoken assumptions about media and culture, this book offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics of intellectual property in the digital era and poses questions about the promises, possibilities, and challenges of network visibility and mobility. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 This is not a remix 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Critical approach 3

2 Copy, a brief history 11

2.1 The ghost in the digital machine 11

2.2 The trouble with media history 23

2.3 "Again, back": Repetition and music's materiality 27

3 The rhetoric of remix 33

3.1 Remix as trope 33

3.2 The extended remix: In the press 40

3.3 The extended remix: Scholarly use 48

3.4 Lawrence Lessig's "Remix Culture" 51

3.5 Remix as resistance 65

3.6 Why the history of remix matters 69

4 Disco edits: Analog antecedents and network bias 71

4.1 What a difference a record makes 71

4.2 Interrupting the rhetoric of remix 73

4.3 Disco edits, a technical distinction 76

4.4 Hang the DJ 78

4.5 Walter Gibbons, the break, and the edits that made disco 82

4.6 Let your body talk 86

4.7 Are samples copies? 91

4.8 Parasites, pirates, and permission 101

4.9 Digital revival and an analog persistence 103

4.10 Credit to the edit 110

5 The new romantics 113

5.1 Piracy's long history 113

5.2 MP3 blogs as social media 116

5.3 Material media: MP3 blogs as artifacts and practices 123

5.4 Provenance as metadata 127

5.5 Rethinking participation and the folk aesthetic 135

5.6 Countercultures and anticommercialism 140

5.7 Networking authenticity 143

5.8 Analog antecedents: Harry Smith's mystical collection 147

5.9 Copies, networks, and a poetics of encounter 155

6 Copies and the aesthetics of circulation 159.

Other Format:

Online version: Borschke, Margie. This is not a remix.

ISBN:

9781501318924

9781501318917

1501318918

1501318926

OCLC:

958780103

Publisher Number:

99973633490