Title Information
Title
Mashnography: Creativity, Consumption, and Copyright in the Mashup Community
Name: Personal
Name Part
McGranahan, Liam R
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Role Term: Text
creator
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2010
Physical Description
Extent
x, 239 p.
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born digital
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Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Miller, Kiri
Role
Role Term: Text
Director
Name: Personal
Name Part
Marshall, Wayne
Role
Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Perlman, Marc
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Titon, Jeff
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology
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Role Term: Text
sponsor
Genre (aat)
theses
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.
Subject
Topic
Mashup
Subject
Topic
mash-up
Subject
Topic
remix
Subject
Topic
dispersed community
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1746846")
Topic
Mashups (Music)
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/878706")
Topic
Copyright
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1726719")
Topic
Remixes (Music)
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/977184")
Topic
Internet
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RPB
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20111003
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Language Term: Text
English
Identifier: DOI
10.7301/Z0GF0RRV
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dissertations