The Music CD and Its Ends
@article{Straw2009TheMC, title={The Music CD and Its Ends}, author={Will Straw}, journal={Design and Culture}, year={2009}, volume={1}, pages={79 - 91} }
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…
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