SELLING DIGITAL MUSIC, FORMATTING CULTURE

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software medi a players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what J eremy Wade Morris calls the digital music commodity, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a conflicted assemblage of techn...[Read more]