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What Did Danger Mouse Do? The Grey Album and Musical Composition in Configurable Culture

2015; Oxford University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/mts/mtv004

1533-8339

Kenneth R. Adams,

Music History and Culture

This article uses The Grey Album, Danger Mouse's 2004 mashup of Jay-Z's Black Album with the Beatles' “White Album,” to explore the ontological status of mashups, with a focus on determining what sort of creative work a mashup is. After situating the album in relation to other types of musical borrowing, I provide brief analyses of three of its tracks and build upon recent research in configurable-music practices to argue that the album is best conceptualized as a type of musical performance.