Remediating Sound

Holly Rogers is Reader in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (2013) and Twentieth Century Music (2021). She is editor of Music and Sound in Documentary Film (2014), The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (2017), Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2019), Cybermedia (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Cambridge Companion to Music Video (2022). Holly is one of the founding editors of Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media series and is the founding director of MIT’s journal, Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture.Joana Freitas is a PhD student in Musicology at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Sociology and Aesthetics of Music on video game music, audiovisual media and cybercommunities. She recently organised the international conference “Like, Subscribe, Share: YouTube, Music and Cyberculture” in Lisbon (2020).João Francisco Porfírio is a PhD student in Musicology at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Sociology and Aesthetics of Music on domestic soundscapes and music in everyday life. He recently organised the international conference “Like, Subscribe, Share: YouTube, Music and Cyberculture” in Lisbon (2020).

This essential book unveils critical approaches to how YouTube has revolutionized the way we (re)create, (re)mix and (re)use sound, music and the moving image in the digital age. The editors and contributors explore innovative and collaborative music practices and trends that pulsate within audiovisual and streaming cultures, including its connection for all users involved, and its influence on contemporary societies, cultures and politics. Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music is an important book for scholars seeking to unravel the entwined worlds of music and digital cultures.

• PrefaceJay Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAIntroduction: “I feel like I’ve heard it before”: The Musical Echoes of YouTubeHolly Rogers, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, Joana Freitas, CESEM - NOVA FCSH, Portugal, and João Francisco Porfírio, CESEM - NOVA FCSH, Portugal1. “Technology allows more people to do things”: Artificial Intelligence, Mashups and Online Musical CreativityChristine Boone, University of North Carolina Asheville, USA, and Brian Drawert, University of North Carolina Asheville, USA2. From Contagion to Imitation: On Bass Drop Memes, Trolling Repertoires and the Legacy of Gabriel TardeEdward Katrak Spencer, University of Oxford, UK3. Sincere, Authentic, Remediated: The Affective Labour and Cross Cultural Remediations of Music Video Reaction Videos on YouTubeMichael Goddard, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK4. Internet Archiving: The Many Lives of Songs in the YouTube AgeHenrik Smith Sivertsen, Royal Danish Library, Denmark5. Listening Through Social Media: Soundscape Composition, Collaboration and Networked Sonic ElongationHolly Rogers, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK6. “Only people with good imagination usually listens to this kind of music”: On the Convergence of Musical Tags, Video Games and YouTube in the Epic GenreJoana Freitas, CESEM - NOVA FCSH, Portugal7. Of Clouds and Vapors: Transcending Ironic Distance in Networked CompositionJonas Wolf, GCSC, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany8. Performing Beyond the Platform: Experiencing Musicking On and Through YouTube, TikTok and InstagramJuan Bermúdez, University of Vienna, Austria9. Library Music as the Soundtrack of YouTubeJúlia Durand, CESEM - NOVA FCSH, Portugal10. Meme and Variations: How Video Mashups of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps Became a ThingScott B. Spencer, University of Southern California, USA11. ‘Spinning Straw Into Gold’: Nacho Video and the Exquisite Corpse of Fan-editingLisa Perrott, University of Waikato, New Zealand12. Music Videos as Protest CommunicationOlu Jenzen, The University of Brighton, UK, Itir Erhart, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, Hande Eslen-Ziya, University of Stavanger, Norway, Umut Korkut, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Aidan McGarry, Loughborough University, UK, and Derya Güçdemir, Independent Scholar, TurkeyIndex