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- Book Title
- MP3
- Publication Name
- MP3
- Title
- MP3
- Subtitle
- The Meaning of a Format
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0822352877
- EAN
- 9780822352877
- ISBN
- 9780822352877
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Genre
- Computers, Music, Science
- Topic
- Recording & Reproduction, Digital Media / General, History, Digital Media / Audio
- Release Date
- 17/07/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Series
- Sign, Storage, Transmission
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Height
- 0.9in
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- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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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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Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822352877
ISBN-13
9780822352877
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112131053
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Recording & Reproduction, Digital Media / General, History, Digital Media / Audio
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Genre
Computers, Music, Science
Number of Pages
360 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
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Ml74.4.M6s74 2012
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Rigorous and quietly philosophical, MP3 situates this world-conquering format in a broader context than the familiar stories of college kids downloading wild and the death of the recording industry. . . . Sterne's fascination with the MP3 and its possibilities yields a book that is, really, a history of auditory culture's startling attempts to beam sound across great distances. . . . Sterne's MP3 is an important work in various academic fields, but his probing questions about the future of digital culture have consequences beyond the specialized reader., "In this authoritative and fascinating book, Jonathan Sterne, a leading scholar of sound studies, traces MP3 technology back to its roots in telephone research. His book is about not only how musical experience became equated with one format but also how subjectivity itself is formatted. Sterne decompresses history to weave a wonderful tale of the many surprising links and twists embedded in those tiny files."- Trevor Pinch , coauthor of Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, Unzip an MP3 and the weirdest stuff starts popping out. MP3: The Meaning Of A Format is not a dry technical or economic analysis of the Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer III audio format . . . . Instead, Jonathan Sterne's book unravels the paradigms and ideas that underpin the MP3. . . . It's an unruly, obsessive and oddly fascinating book, as befits Duke University Press's eclectic and original texts on music and sound., Despite, or perhaps because of, the rather dystopic scene that Sterne sketches at the end of MP3 , the book falls nicely into the space between sound studies and critical information studies. It joins humanistic scholarship on embodied listening practices to a critique of the economic interests that have funded much of the scientific research on the phenomenology of sound. To that end, MP3 reveals much about the social construction of hearing and how the familiar mythology of audio fidelity has been produced, discussed, and exploited by communications industries. Though the eponymous MP3 may have been eclipsed by the recording industry as Sterne's main object of inquiry, MP3 details admirably how the ideologies of corporate capitalism are deeply embedded in the listening practices of our everyday lives., "As we continue to inhabit the digital universe created by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne provides us with an important cultural history and theory of the pervasive MP3 audio format. His insights go deep into our basic ideas of hearing and listening, as well as of information, showing how these ideas are tied to twentieth-century media."- Pauline Oliveros, Composer/Improviser, Deep Listening Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Rigorous and quietly philosophical, MP3 situates this world-conquering format in a broader context than the familiar stories of college kids downloading wild and the death of the recording industry. . . . Sterne's fascination with the MP3 and its possibilities yields a book that is, really, a history of auditory culture's startling attempts to beam sound across great distances. . . . Sterne's MP3 is an important work in various academic fields, but his probing questions about the future of digital culture have consequences beyond the specialized reader." - Hua Hsu, Slate, Sterne's preoccupation is with the fallacy of what one might call the official, Whig history of sound recording--a constant ascension to better fidelity, the triumph of signal over noise, Instead, he emphasizes the double movement where technology makes the musical signal more and more compressed, more 'lousy' than it ever was before, as is the case with the information in an MP3. . . . [T]here is no denying that it adds a necessary historical dimension to the study of music's workings., " MP3: The Meaning of a Format is packed with great stories. It's a brilliant book about how we listen and how we make music. It traces the way MP3s have been key to the way technology is revolutionizing music."-- Laurie Anderson , artist/musician, Rooting the MP3 within the broader history of pychoacoustic research, Sterne provides an extensive chronicle of experiments, methodological shifts and innovations in telegraph and telephone technology., " MP3:The Meaning of a Format is packed with great stories. It's a brilliant book about how we listen and how we make music. It traces the way MP3s have been key to the way technology is revolutionizing music."- Laurie Anderson , Artist/Musician, "The insights offered here are not only of interest to the study of sound and music but reach beyond to the theorisation of digital media technologies and the understanding of how communication formats develop. . . . [T]his study shows the importance of continuities and the cross-referencing of media formats, offering a fresh entry point in the histories of sound and communications as well as of digital technologies." - Hillegonda Rietveld, Times Higher Education Supplement, "As we continue to inhabit the digital universe created by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne provides us with an important cultural history and theory of the pervasive MP3 audio format. His insights go deep into our basic ideas of hearing and listening, as well as of information, showing how these ideas are tied to twentieth-century media."-- Pauline Oliveros , composer and improviser, founder of the Deep Listening Institute, and Distinguished Research Professor of Music, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Unzip an MP3 and the weirdest stuff starts popping out. MP3: The Meaning Of A Format is not a dry technical or economic analysis of the Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer III audio format . . . . Instead, Jonathan Sterne's book unravels the paradigms and ideas that underpin the MP3. . . . It's an unruly, obsessive and oddly fascinating book, as befits Duke University Press's eclectic and original texts on music and sound." - Derek Walmsley, The Wire, "Sterne's preoccupation is with the fallacy of what one might call the official, Whig history of sound recording-a constant ascension to better fidelity, the triumph of signal over noise, Instead, he emphasizes the double movement where technology makes the musical signal more and more compressed, more 'lousy' than it ever was before, as is the case with the information in an MP3. . . . [T]here is no denying that it adds a necessary historical dimension to the study of music's workings." - Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, This is an audiophile's dream resource. . . . This is a book for historians of music and technology, technology scholars, and those with a love of music and audio recording. Highly recommended., Sterne exhaustively and eloquently traces the history of the mp3 from the initial hearing model developed in Bell Labs to the current debates about piracy. As the author argues, each time we rip a CD to our hard drives, we're not only saving space in our living rooms or ensuring we have the appropriate gym soundtrack, but also reaffirming a fundamental idea about the limits of human perception., "In this authoritative and fascinating book, Jonathan Sterne, a leading scholar of sound studies, traces MP3 technology back to its roots in telephone research. His book is about not only how musical experience became equated with one format but also how subjectivity itself is formatted. Sterne decompresses history to weave a wonderful tale of the many surprising links and twists embedded in those tiny files."-- Trevor Pinch , coauthor of Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, As it turned out, the most rewarding music book of 2012 wasn't about an artist, a genre, or (thank the lord) the glory days of punk. Instead, it told the story of MP3, the digital audio standard that author and communications professor Jonathan Sterne traces from early-20th-century telephone research up through contemporary debates over piracy and file-sharing. Along the way, we're taken on fascinating detours through the invention of perceptual coding, the construction (and critique) of the ideal hearing subject, international corporate debates, and an extended discussion over whether or not music should be considered a 'thing.' All file formats should be so lucky., " MP3: The Meaning of a Format is based on a genealogy that meticulously traces various technological strands that led to the MP3 being codified in 1992. Sterne's method allows for unexpected insights that break with well-ingrained presumptions about technological progress....As Sterne shows, digital technologies need to be understood in a broad sense, and perhaps the difference between analogue and digital is not so very great after all. Instead, this study shows the importance of continuities and the cross-referencing of media formats, offering a fresh entry point in the histories of sound and communications as well as of digital technologies." Hillegonda C. Rietveld, Times Higher Education , August 9th 2012"Jonathan Sterne argues in MP3: The Meaning of a Format , the dreams associated with MP3s, iPods, and the digital revolution in music distribution are actually "old dreams." Rigorous and quietly philosophical, MP3 situates this world-conquering format in a broader context than the familiar stories of college kids downloading wild and the death of the recording industry.... Sterne's MP3 is an important work in various academic fields, but his probing questions about the future of digital culture have consequences beyond the specialized reader. The MP3 is a format, just as vinyl records, compact discs, and cassettes were formats. There is music, which will continue to send us into the throes of euphoria or depression, and there is its container, whether it is a minute file inside your computer or a lustrous vinyl record. The nostalgia we feel isn't for a more thoroughgoing relationship to music so much as it is nostalgia for these things and our relationships to them, scarcity-in-retrospect, the quaint simplicity and innocence of our own past." Hua Hsu, Slate.com , August 2012"As we continue to inhabit the digital universe created by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne provides us with an important cultural history and theory of the pervasive MP3 audio format. His insights go deep into our basic ideas of hearing and listening as well as our ideas of information, showing how these ideas are tied to 20th century media." Pauline Oliveros, Composer/Improviser, Deep Listening Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute"In this authoritative and fascinating book, Jonathan Sterne, a leading scholar of sound studies, traces the MP3 technology back to its roots in telephone research. His book is about not only how musical experience became equated with one format but also how subjectivity itself is formatted. Sterne decompresses history to weave a wonderful tale of the many surprising links and twists embedded in those tiny files." Trevor Pinch, author of Analog Days: The History and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, "As we continue to inhabit the digital universe created by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne provides us with important cultural history and theory of the pervasive MP3 audio format. His insights go deep into our basic ideas of hearing and listening as well as our ideas of information, showing how these ideas are tied to 20th century media."- Pauline Oliveros, Composer/Improviser, Deep Listening Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Notwithstanding the tininess of its subject, this is a major work on the political economy of sound and ideas about hearing and communication in the twentieth and early twenty-first century., "As we continue to inhabit the digital universe created by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne provides us with an important cultural history and theory of the pervasive MP3 audio format. His insights go deep into our basic ideas of hearing and listening, as well as of information, showing how these ideas are tied to twentieth-century media."- Pauline Oliveros , composer and improviser, founder of the Deep Listening Institute, and Distinguished Research Professor of Music, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "The last decade has been a truly exciting one in cultural studies of sound, largely due to the generous and catalytic contributions of Jonathan Sterne...the importance of this book for critical sound studies is undeniable." - Carolyn Elerding, Reviews in Cultural Theory, Sterne's MP3 is an exemplary history of the present. . . . MP3 serves as a needed corrective--if not an outright refutation--of the varieties of techno-optimism that have flourished in response to the format's widespread circulation., "Sterne exhaustively and eloquently traces the history of the mp3 from the initial hearing model developed in Bell Labs to the current debates about piracy. As the author argues, each time we rip a CD to our hard drives, we're not only saving space in our living rooms or ensuring we have the appropriate gym soundtrack, but also reaffirming a fundamental idea about the limits of human perception." - Eric Harvey, Pitchfork, "In this authoritative and fascinating book, Jonathan Sterne, a leading scholar of sound studies, traces the MP3 technology back to its roots in telephone research. His book is about not only how musical experience became equated with one format but also how subjectivity itself is formatted. Sterne decompresses history to weave a wonderful tale of the many surprising links and twists embedded in those tiny files."- Trevor Pinch , author of Analog Days: The History and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, " MP3: The Meaning of a Format is packed with great stories. It's a brilliant book about how we listen and how we make music. It traces the way MP3s have been key to the way technology is revolutionizing music."- Laurie Anderson , artist/musician, This book is valuable for anyone thinking about music in our society, and by extension, the production, dissemination and political economy of any digital arts., "Sterne's preoccupation is with the fallacy of what one might call the official, Whig history of sound recording--a constant ascension to better fidelity, the triumph of signal over noise, Instead, he emphasizes the double movement where technology makes the musical signal more and more compressed, more 'lousy' than it ever was before, as is the case with the information in an MP3. . . . [T]here is no denying that it adds a necessary historical dimension to the study of music's workings." - Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
Publication Name
Mp3 : the Meaning of a Format
Table of 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
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2011-053340
Dewey Decimal
621.382
Series
Sign, Storage, Transmission Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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