Author: Straw, Will

Source: Design and Culture, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2009 , pp. 79-91(13)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

Abstract:

Claims about the imminent death of the compact disc (CD) are discussed in terms of the format's slow loss of materiality over the past decade or more. Conceived as a precious form combining music, imagery and textual annotation, the CD's integrity has been pulled apart over several years which have seen it become a portable, mobile cultural form. As the limits of the album-length CD have lost their cultural resonance, the CD has become little more than an intermediate technology through which the transfer of music from older formats (like the vinyl album) to new storage devices (like the computer hard disc) has occurred.

Keywords: MUSIC; TECHNOLOGY; COMPACT DISC; ARCHIVE; PARATEXT

Document Type: Obituary

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175470709787375751

Publication date: 2009-03-01

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