This is Not a Remix

Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music

Margie Borschke (Macquarie University, Australia)

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English

Bloomsbury Publishing
10 August 2017

Music; Easy listening, MOR music; Music recording & reproduction; Music industry

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 playlists—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.

By: Margie Borschke (Macquarie University Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: HPOD
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 288g
ISBN: 9781501318924
ISBN 10: 1501318926
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 10 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 This is not a remix 1.1 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

Margie Borschke is Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She studies contemporary and historical media use and how it contributes to the production of knowledge and culture.

Reviews for This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music

Margie Borschke's book offers an exciting new framework for thinking about digital copying of media, shifting the discussion from the now well known territory of intellectual property rights to the rich and complex history of the aesthetics of copying in both analog and digital media. * Marcus Boon, Professor of English, York University, Canada * This inspiring and well-researched study really puts the disco in discourse, reminding of the long history of practices of copy that pertain to contemporary forms of cultural (re)production. Borschke's book makes a great contribution to critical studies of culture and also media archaeological research and is a warmly recommended for students and colleagues in music, sound and media studies. * Jussi Parikka, author of What is Media Archaeology? and Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics, Winchester School of Art, UK * 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 drum breaks in his makeshift home studio, then pressing the mix on acetate for use in clubs. * The Wire *