This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music
- Author: Borschke, Margie
The most enjoyable section of This Is Not A Remix concerns the invention of the disco edit, particularly the specifics of legendary New York DJ Walter Gibbons's process of splicing together extended... — More…
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Contents
- 1 This is not a remix
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- Introduction
- 1. 2 Critical approach 2 Copy, a brief history
- 2. 1 The ghost in the digital machine
- 2. 2 The trouble with media history
- 2. 3 "Again, back": Repetition and music's materiality 3 The rhetoric of remix
- 3. 1 Remix as trope
- 3. 2 The extended remix: In the press
- 3. 3 The extended remix: Scholarly use
- 3. 4 Lawrence Lessig's "Remix Culture"
- 3. 5 Remix as resistance
- 3. 6 Why the history of remix matters 4 Disco edits: Analog antecedents and network bias
- 4. 1 What a difference a record makes
- 4. 2 Interrupting the rhetoric of remix
- 4. 3 Disco edits, a technical distinction
- 4. 4 Hang the DJ
- 4. 5 Walter Gibbons, the break, and the edits that made disco
- 4. 6 Let your body talk
- 4. 7 Are samples copies?
- 4. 8 Parasites, pirates, and permission
- 4. 9 Digital revival and an analog persistence
- 4. 10 Credit to the edit 5 The New Romantics
- 5. 1 Piracy's long history
- 5. 2 MP3 blogs as social media
- 5. 3 Material media: MP3 blogs as artifacts and practices
- 5. 4 Provenance as metadata
- 5. 5 Rethinking participation and the folk aesthetic
- 5. 6 Countercultures and anticommercialism
- 5. 7 Networking authenticity
- 5. 8 Analog antecedents: Harry Smith's mystical collection
- 5. 9 Copies, networks, and a poetics of encounter 6 Copies and the aesthetics of circulation