Selling digital music, formatting culture
By: Jeremy Wade Morris
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780520287938; 9780520287945
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Sound; Music and technology; Technological innovations; Sound recording industry; Music and the Internet; Case studies; Music trade; Digital jukebox software; Recording and reproducing; History
Description: "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"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The digital music commodity; title: Music as a digital file; title: Making technology behave; title: This business of Napster; title: Click to buy : music in digital stores; title: Music in the cloud; title: Conclusion. Exceptional objects.