The Music CD and Its Ends

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12922219
AutoresWill Straw (School of Visual Arts, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen1
Número1
Páginas79-91
Fecha de publicación2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDesign and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1754-7075 • E-ISSN: 1754-7083
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/175470709787375751
OpenAlexW1975653206
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas13

Claims about the imminent death of the compact disc (CD) are discussed in terms of the format's slow loss of materiality over the past decade or more. Conceived as a precious form combining music, imagery and textual annotation, the CD's integrity has been pulled apart over several years which have seen it become a portable, mobile cultural form. As the limits of the album-length CD have lost their cultural resonance, the CD has become little more than an intermediate technology through which the transfer of music from older formats (like the vinyl album) to new storage devices (like the computer hard disc) has occurred.KEYWORDS: musictechnologycompact discarchiveparatext

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Compact disc · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Physics · Visual arts · Copyright and Intellectual Property · Music History and Culture · Music Technology and Sound Studies