Category: Unit 9 Remixing Culture

Remixing Culture

After watching the TedTalks, “Laws That Choke Creativity”, early one when the “talking machine” was created, a man named Souza argued that, “the infernal machines would take away from our creativity and artistic value in our culture.” In a way, he was right. Broadcasting brought up the recurring fear of new developments taking away from our artistic value. Broadcasting was a terror in how it developed a new control over popular content. “BMI took public domain works and gave it away for free. They predicted that people would revolt because only the second public best domain was available for the public” (“Laws That Choke Creativity”). However, while our culture is growing more accustomed to learning and developing society through digital technology, it is the opportunity for the revival of “vocal cords” and celebrating amateur culture. The amateurs are the people who produce for the love of what they’re doing, and not for the money—what modern generations are doing today. “Remixing” an original video, song, or speech is how we understand our culture today. If anything, I thought that remixing our culture was developing a process to understand our modern culture. However, my question is, do you think we should fear the remixing involved in our culture and how it will take away from true understanding of past, present and/or future events?