Sterne MP3

The Meaning of a Format
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9552-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten

Reihe: Sign, Storage, Transmission

Jonathan Sterne shows that understanding the historical meaning of the MP3, the world's most common format for recorded audio, involves rethinking the place of digital technologies in the broader universe of twentieth-century communication history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sterne, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Format Theory 1

1. Perceptual Techniques 32

2. Nature Builds No Telephones 61

3. Perceptual Coding and the Domestication of Noise 92

4. Making a Standard 128

5. Of MPEG, Measurement,and Men 148

6. Is Music a Thing? 184

The End of MP3 227

Notes 247

List of Interviews 295

Bibliography 299

Index 331

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is the author of the award-winning book The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of The Sound Studies Reader. Sterne has written for Tape Op, Punk Planet, Bad Subjects, and other alternative press venues. He also makes music and other audio works. Visit his website at http://sterneworks.org.