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This paper describes the contemporary context of Zikir Maulud, a popular, religiously-inspired musical practice that has a long history in Sambas, a regency in West Kalimantan. The formation of a ...

"The death of the MP3 was announced in a conference room in Erlangen, Germany, in the spring of 1995." But now, 22 years later, the MP3 truly is dead, according to the people who invented it. The ...

Though it seems as if the iPod has been around forever, the device is actually only eight years old as of last week. Portable digital music players in general aren’t much older, as the first clunky, ...

"I don't like the title 'The Father of MP3,'" says Karlheinz Brandenburg. But he kinda is. "Certainly I was involved all the time from basic research [to] getting it into the market." Brandenburg was ...