The "war of the volume": music and listening in the digital era
Abstract
The article focuses on issues related to digital music production, listening and power through the phenomenon known as the loudness war, a general trend in the music industry to maximize the volume of discs at the expense of dynamic range, the artists’ freedom, and the listeners’ personal freedom.
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