The Music CD and Its Ends

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12922219
AutoresWill Straw (School of Visual Arts, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume1
Fascículo1
Páginas79-91
Data de publicação2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDesign and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1754-7075 • E-ISSN: 1754-7083
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/175470709787375751
OpenAlexW1975653206
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências 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