{"product_id":"9781501348518","title":"Compact Disc","description":"Author: Robert Barry\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781501348518\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 19 Mar 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003cbr\u003eThe story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage from analogue media, like records and tapes, to digital formats, like CDs, something changed in the nature of media and in the relationship we have with music. Music became code, a sequence of 1s and 0s, a flow of pure information. The material structure of the medium itself was always supposed to disappear. But the physical has proved to possess an uncanny knack for returning. \u003cbr\u003eToday the CD is a zombie medium, still popular amongst certain avant-garde record labels and Japanese consumers. Against all the odds, the spectre endures.\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46619433271454,"sku":"UBD-9781501348518","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781501348518.jpg?v=1773899604","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781501348518","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}