2nd Edition

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies

Edited By Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, xtine burrough Copyright 2025
682 Pages 107 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

682 Pages 107 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

682 Pages 107 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2 nd 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... Read more

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 BRØVIG

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. Détournement 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

Biography

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.