Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2008
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Abstract
Remix means to take cultural artifacts and combine and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends. In this sense, remix is as old as human cultures, and human cultures are themselves products of remixing. Since the late 1980s, however—originating with highly contrived forms of music remix by dancehall DJs—remix practices have been greatly amplified in scope and sophistication by recent developments in digital technologies. These make it possible for home-based digital practitioners to produce polished remixes across a range of media and cultural forms. This has in turn strengthened remix culture, encouraging seemingly endless hybridizations in language, genre, content, technique, and the like, and raised questions of legal, educational, and cultural import. This article samples remix culture and identifies some key implications remix practices have for literacy in general, and literacy education in particular.
DOI
10.1598/JAAL.52.1.3
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Knobel, Michele and Lankshear, Colin, "Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization" (2008). Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works. 115.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/teaching-learning-facpubs/115