Selling digital music, formatting culture / Jeremy Wade Morris.
| Author/creator | Morris, Jeremy Wade, 1976- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015] |
| Description | xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : the digital music commodity -- Music as a digital file -- Making technology behave -- This business of Napster -- Click to buy : Music in digital stores -- Music in the cloud -- Conclusion : exceptional objects. |
| Abstract | "Selling Digital Music 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. Exploring the emergence of what Morris calls the digital music commodity, Selling Digital Music 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--Morris questions how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CDs. The digitization of the music commodity 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 is a sounding out of music's encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and algorithms of digital culture."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015016443 |
| ISBN | 9780520287938 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0520287932 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780520287945 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0520287940 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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