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- Abstract:
- This dissertation is the first ethnographic study of mashups and the mashup community. I have tried to represent the music and its makers on their own terms in hopes of fostering a sense of understanding and respect. In addition to documenting an important genre of popular music and highlighting the stories and opinions of a vibrant community of producers and fans, I advance several important arguments concerning the production and reception of contemporary popular music. Additionally, I argue that web-based communities are emergent and that current theorizing about community form and function needs to incorporate the insights that can be gained by looking at models like the mashup community. I reframe the commonly accepted notion that the act of remixing is a form of resistance, and demonstrate how ethnographic insights provide a level of nuance that is often missing from studies of popular music and popular culture. I also argue that, in an effort to negotiate the troubled relationship between mashups and copyright, mashup producers have developed an alternative set of rules about authorship and authentic artistic production.
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)
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McGranahan, Liam R.,
"Mashnography: Creativity, Consumption, and Copyright in the Mashup Community"
(2010).
Ethnomusicology Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0GF0RRV
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Theses and Dissertations for the Ethnomusicology department....