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- Title
IS THIS AMERICA?: HOW RHETORICAL VELOCITY AND RECOMPOSITION TURN MOVEMENTS INTO MEMES.
- Authors
Williams, Micah
- Abstract
Recomposition has been widely discussed as complex and rhetorically sophisticated--but is it just? This essay examines three recompositions of a music video, Childish Gambino's "This Is America," to understand how justice and injustice are carried out through changes to form and content. Save a few cases, such recompositions appropriated the original for personal gain, in effect undermining Gambino's work to champion for marginalized communities. Ultimately, my analysis shows it is imperative that content creators learn what makes just and unjust recomposition. Rather than misappropriate important messages from marginalized groups, users should call out unjust recompositions when they see them.
- Subjects
AMERICA; GLOVER, Donald, 1983-; MEMES; MUSIC videos; VELOCITY; JUST war doctrine
- Publication
Young Scholars in Writing, 2022, Vol 19, p11
- ISSN
2152-6516
- Publication type
Article