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Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture
Jeremy Wade Morris
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Description for Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture
Paperback. Focusing on case studies of five key technologies, this book explores how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CD. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b/w, 1 line art. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; KNTF; UDM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the digital music commodity, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped reformat popular music's meanings and uses. Through case studies of five key technologies ... Read more
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the digital music commodity, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped reformat popular music's meanings and uses. Through case studies of five key technologies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
396g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520287945
SKU
V9780520287945
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About Jeremy Wade Morris
Jeremy Wade Morris is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the department of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published in New Media & Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, First Monday, and various edited collections on music and technology.
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