Turntables and Tropes

Turntables and Tropes by Scott Haden Church is an interdisciplinary journey across media and culture, demonstrating how classic rhetoric remains fully at play in contemporary times. From Isocrates to Girl Talk, Church performs like a record digger and producer, splicing and dicing examples from history and contemporary culture to put remix into practice in a comparative work primed to revisit important questions on authorship and collective creativity.—Eduardo Navas, associate research professor, School of Visual Arts, College of Arts and Architecture, Pennsylvania State University

This book is not just about remix; it is itself an impressive performance of remix. Like a skillful DJ, Scott Haden Church samples from and recombines a wide range of existing source material—not only drawing on the recently released hits in remix studies but also mobilizing deep cuts that go all the way back to the ancients—to assemble a remarkably insightful, innovative, and entertaining investigation of the rhetorical properties and discursive dimensions of remix.—David J. Gunkel, Presidential Research, Scholarly and Artistry Professor, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University, and author, Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics after Remix