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Selling digital music, formatting culture / / Jeremy Wade Morris



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Autore: Morris Jeremy Wade <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Selling digital music, formatting culture / / Jeremy Wade Morris Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina: 381/.4578
Soggetto topico: Music trade - Technological innovations
Music and the Internet
Digital jukebox software
Soggetto non controllato: cloud computing
digital jukebox
digital music commodity
digital music
history of digital music
history of music technology
history of music
history of recorded music
industrial production of music
itunes
media studies
metadata
music and the internet
music criticism
music history
music in popular culture
music industry
music marketing
music technology
music
musicians
napster
popular music studies
winamp
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Digital Music Commodity -- 1. Music as a Digital File -- 2. Making Technology Behave -- 3. This Business of Napster -- 4. Click to Buy: Music in Digital Stores -- 5. Music in the Cloud -- Conclusion: Exceptional Objects -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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-Winamp, metadata, Napster, iTunes, and cloud computing-this book explores how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CD. Morris connects industrial production, popular culture, technology, and commerce in a narrative involving the aesthetics of music and computers, and the labor of producers and everyday users, as well as the value that listeners make and take from digital objects and cultural goods. Above all, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture is a sounding out of music's encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and algorithms of digital culture and of why the shifting form of the music commodity matters for the music and other media we love.
Titolo autorizzato: Selling digital music, formatting culture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-96293-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814693403321
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