Mp3 The Meaning of a Format

Name: Mp3 The Meaning of a Format
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ISBN: 9780822352877

ISBN-10: 0822352877

ISBN-13: 9780822352877

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jonathan Sterne

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Marking a significant turn in media and communications studies, this extraordinary sonic history connects the world’s most popular format for recording audio to ideas about ears, media, and technology as they have emerged and developed since the early twentieth century. Jonathan Sterne contends that everything we think we know about hearing in the state of nature is a result of the interaction between ears and technologies in twentieth-century science and engineering. The model of hearing built into the MP3 format reveals the extent to which compression, rather than verisimilitude, is a driving force in the history and ongoing development of communication technology, sonic culture, and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Format Theory



Perceptual Technics



Nature Builds No Telephones



Perceptual Coding and the Domestication of Noise



Making a Standard



Of MPEG, Measurement, and Men



Is Music a Thing?


The End of MP3


Notes


List of Interviews


Bibliography


Index