The Compact Disc
The Compact Disc was the consumer audio format that replaced the vinyl LP in the early 1980s. It was a five-inch,…
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Music
Essays on composers, performers, instruments and musical forms, and on the technologies that changed how music is made and heard.
The Sounds Voyager Carried
On the afternoon of 3 June 1977, in a small recording studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a 28-year-old writer named Ann…
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