MP3
The Meaning of a Format
1st Edition
Published on 17. July 2012
358 pages
978-0-8223-9552-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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.
Content
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
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
