Christine Boone
SMT 2017 Recap
I’ve just returned from the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory. Although I didn’t give a paper myself, I was excited to...
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Christine Boone
Oct 11, 20172 min read
...Except Rap and Country.
The website BoingBoing (click on picture for source) pointed me to this mashup. It's by DJ Top Cat, and it mashes "Folsom Prison Blues"...
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Christine Boone
Sep 2, 20172 min read
T-Swizzle vs. Britney, Betch
By now, you may be one of the over 100 million people (at the time of writing) who have seen Taylor Swift's new video for her song "Look...
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Christine Boone
Aug 10, 20171 min read
Sad But Superstitious: Yea or Nay?
I came across this mashup by Wax Audio on YouTube today. It mashes up the vocals and horn lines from "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder with...
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Christine Boone
Jun 28, 20172 min read
Earth, Wind & Ozzy
Here's a good one! Ozzy Osbourne and Earth, Wind & Fire walk into a bar, and this mashup by DJ Cummerbund is the result! This mashup is...
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Christine Boone
May 17, 20172 min read
Fearless Girl vs. Charging Bull: A Sculptural Mashup
Remember when the Fearless Girl statue appeared opposite Charging Bull on Wall Street a few months ago? A friend of mine shared this...
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Christine Boone
Apr 19, 20172 min read
Radiohead vs. Dave Brubeck
A couple of weeks ago, fellow mashup scholar Anthony Cushing introduced me to a mashup of "15 Step" by Radiohead and "Take Five" by the...
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Christine Boone
Apr 6, 20171 min read
In Defense of Solfege, or, Maria von Trapp’s Guidonian Manifesto
My latest blog post is actually a guest blog post for Picardy Learning. Check it out here!
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Christine Boone
Feb 24, 20172 min read
The Magic iPod
My attention was drawn to this website about a week ago. The “iPod” in the title makes a reference to the fact that the heyday of the...
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Christine Boone
Jan 27, 20173 min read
More than the sum of its parts: Green Day + Evanescence
"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day is a beautiful song. It's also an emotional song, if you're familiar with the music video....
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Christine Boone
Oct 7, 20164 min read
A Music Theory Artifact!
*Disclaimer: This post is not about mashups. But this is just TOO COOL not to write about! A couple of weeks ago, a student approached me...
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Christine Boone
Sep 18, 20162 min read
Even Blurrier Lines
About a year and a half ago, I blogged about the lawsuit over Robin Thicke's song "Blurred Lines"'s alleged similarity to the late Marvin...
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Christine Boone
Jun 2, 20162 min read
Whole Lotta Similarity?
A few months ago, I came across a mashup by Wax Audio called "Whole Lotta Sabbath." It combines "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin with...
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Christine Boone
Mar 24, 20162 min read
Apple Music + Dubset = A Big Step Forward
About a year ago, I gave a guest lecture for a colleague's course about sampling and copyright law. At the end of the presentation, I...
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Christine Boone
Mar 2, 20162 min read
Beethoven + Intel??
While watching Hulu a couple weeks ago, I heard a really interesting mashup during an Intel commercial. The commercial incorporated...
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Christine Boone
Jan 23, 20161 min read
Classical Mash
Just a quick post this time... When a classical music meme hits the mainstream, almost all of my Facebook friends share it. This one made...
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Christine Boone
Dec 30, 20151 min read
Commercial Jingle Mashup
This commercial jingle mashup by Grant Woolard was featured on the SMT blog a few weeks ago. I think it's super cute, and I'm going to...
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Christine Boone
Nov 1, 20152 min read
Breathing New Life Into Old Songs
The other week, I was at lunch with my colleague, Toby King, and the song "Super Freak" by Rick James came on. He wondered out loud if...
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Christine Boone
Oct 8, 20151 min read
Careless or Dead
"Careless or Dead" by the Kleptones is one of my favorite mashups. I think it does a really great job of creating humor by mixing songs...
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Christine Boone
Aug 27, 20152 min read
Easy Heaven
Something cool about researching stuff that's in the popular press is that people send me new mashups all the time. A friend of a friend...
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