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The Evolution of Remix Culture

How Remix is becoming a platform for collective expression by—and conversations between—social groups  
 
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truffaut015 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Sorry, but what you're talking about isn't - people have been doing this kind of thing since it was possible to buy a cine-cameras (there's a term from the archive) at a semi-affordable price for relatively ordinary people. Nice that you have discovered this for yourself, but maybe a little historical perspective and knowledge night be useful, too, and let you add something original and new. Simply relabelling a very old (in media terms) practice isn't originality, or conceptual thinking
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rickbonerski (1 month ago) Show Hide
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@scotty123123 What? Can *you* tell me more, then, about the philosophical impact of remix culture? What sort of deep insights were you looking for? This video does a very good job explaining how the different pieces of our shared pop culture end up as pieces of a kind of cultural lingua franca for different social groups.
scotty123123 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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It watches like a sales video describing obscure because tenuous justifications for boring videos of idiot hipsters dancing to songs paying tribute to other boring songs by idiot hipsters. It has the panglossian descriptive, as opposed to evaluative, style of an American tupper-ware salesman selling inferior product. Where's the critical judgement, musical analysis and comedy? Obviously somebody needs to read his Adorno
lottiesocks (1 month ago) Show Hide
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The guy talking has an unendurably annoying and geeky voice
normative (1 month ago) Show Hide
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True, true
jxgriffin (1 month ago) Show Hide
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A really great example of what can be done with remixing is "Blame It on the Pop" by DJ Earworm, an ingenious mashup/remix of the Top 25 pop songs/videos of 2009. Not only is it a wonderful review of the year in music, DJ Earworm's mashup uses snippets of the lyrics from all 25 songs to create an original song that suggests a common theme in the music of the past year. It is truly a case of the sum being greater than its parts. In case you haven't listened to it, check it out - it's amazing.
shanrico (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Perhaps I'm missing the entire point of this discussion? When I first saw this, I thought it was a spoof, some SNL-style comedy sketch. If this portends to be serious conversation, I'm not sure I grasp what the noize is about? Remixing in its broadest interpretation is re-contextualizing and or combining in new ways. It's been done for ages, came of age when "sampling" became possible with digital technologies and file formats and software and hardware. It can be done well, or not well.
shanrico (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I don't see that these particular videos do more than pay homage to the original and seem suited for a TV-ad, not a comment on lives today.
villa72 (1 month ago)
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