The Art of Mash Ups

Since we have been recently talking a lot of mash up in this class I figured I would share this link that I found.

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2009/02/05/the-art-of-mashups

The article talks about some of the history of mash ups. We tend to think that mash ups is a new art, but in fact its been around for a while. Mash ups started getting popular it the early 60s. Fan of Elvis often did mash ups of his song "Blue Suede Shoes". The art of mash ups has been around for around 50 years. It is interesting that things, such as copy right, still get in the way of artists.

Another misconception is that mash ups are just songs. Mash ups can actually contain a lot of other mediums. John Nelson mashes song with found sound such as laugher or nature sounds or talking in the back ground. All these things can be considered mash ups. Also videos can be considered mash ups. I posted earlier in the year a Mean Girls Clip paired with the animation of Disney movies. A mash up can be an array of things and is not limited to just music.