From our work in class 4/18: Some ways we tried to define and capture the essence of each of the terms that Banks uses in Digital Griots.
Scratch
- “interruption” (1)
- hey! / bridge
Groove
- Junction / “looping” (7)
- “layering and repetition” (7)
- Burkean parlor
Shoutout
- “Who you wit!?” – Bernie Mac (111)
- “relationships, allegiances and influences” (26)
- “calling the roll” (26)
- citation/reference
- authorizing/promoting
Mix
- Bringing together
- Facilitative/collaborative
- Griot’s role = “create conditions where a community can create its own collaborative text”
Remix
- Builds from mix but more self-aware
- Historicity in action creates generative story
- Calls attention to its own fissures and stitches
- “back in the day” narrative (87)
- draws attention to its own “not-newness”
Mixtape
- Artifact, collection
- “compilation of others’ texts and ideas…” (138)
- personal and public
