Ball’s revolutionary conception of the mixtape

book-cover-i-mix-what-i-likeIn his new book for AK Press, I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto, author Jared Ball takes his time to carefully build a dialectic foundation, rather than immediately jumping into discussion of “low-tech and practical networks of community-based media and journalistic practice.”

Ball instead takes a tactic that – at first read – seems like the author is spending an inordinate amount of time laying groundwork and telling the history of why one would need said journalistic devices.
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