This page accompanies my article, “Mashup Poetics as Pedagogical Practice,” in Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube , edited by Nicole Biamonte (Scarecrow Press, 2010). [PDF]
Here are various links to materials referenced in the article, as well as embedded video and audio files:
The Grey Album
GYBO (Get Your Bootleg On)
Wayne Marshall, “Musically-Expressed Ideas About Music”
If you’re looking for additional information about mashups, here are a few useful sources:
Sasha Frere-Jones, “1 + 1 + 1 = 1: The New Math of Mashups” (New Yorker)
Wikipedia entry on “Bastard Pop”
Liam McGranahan’s dissertation