I love the range of examples given in the readings for what remix has come tomean and could come to mean in the future. Certainly, before this reading, I had only really thought of it in the context of music, though I had definitely associated it with copyright issues, which still seem to be a…
Much like Hannah Feustle, I was reminded while reading Framing Remix Rhetorically of a video that I watched in one of my high school English classes—a CrashCourse video discussing Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. “We are just trying to create educational content in the hopes that it will be useful to people” John Green…
There have been many remixes of Pride and Prejudice, in movies and books. Kiera gives an example in her post of the popular novel Pride and Prejudice Zombies. Another remix is a contemporary young adult romance novel called Epic Fail, by Claire LaZebnik. It was published by Harper Collins in August of 2011. I was obsessed with Pride…
Helene Hegemann’s 2010 debut novel, Axolotl Roadkill, is about a troubled 16-year-old girl, Mifti, who has been living by herself in the grime and creative confusion of Berlin since the death of her mother. “What sets Mifti apart is her hypersensitivity and her open, questioning curiosity about an older generation that doesn’t seem to be…
Last summer, I worked for a small amusement center called Funplex, located in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. It had a decent playlist consisting of a wide variety of music, but there was one song in particular that caught my ear each time it played. It started with the intro to “No Rain” by Blind Melon,…
The Lunar Chronicles are “futuristic retellings of classic fairy tales” (Meyer). Throughout her five novels, Marissa Meyer, a New York Times bestselling author, remakes the lives of four princesses: Cinderella (Cinder), Rapunzel (Cress), Red Riding Hood (Scarlet) and Snow White (Winter), as well as the Evil Queen (Queen Levana). In the first novel, the reader…
One of my favorite examples of remix for some time now has been the remixing of popular songs to create a mashup of the songs. Particularly, I have been watching YouTuber Daniel Kim’s “Pop Danthology” videos since the first one was created in 2010. Kim mixed between 50-90 pop songs that became popular in a…