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High bias : the distorted history of the cassette tape / Marc Masters.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469675985
  • 1469675986
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Killing music: the rise of the cassette tape -- Creating music: how cassettes helped launch movements -- Cassettes underground: an international network of tape artists -- The tape traders: recording and sharing live music on cassette -- The tape hunters: traveling the globe to unearth history on cassette -- The tape makers: the culture of personal mixtapes -- Tape's not dead: the cassette comeback.
Summary: "Marc Masters explores the surprising ups and downs of the cassette tape's journey through international music culture, showing us the cultural impact of cassettes on music listening, music portability, and music making itself. Winding through early hip-hop tape trading, the deeply personal act of making a mixtape, and even contemporary composers who use cassettes to create musique concrète compositions, this book chronicles the resilient do-it-yourself spirit of cassettes through conversations with scene-setters coupled with deep explorations into music history. More than just the most comprehensive history of how cassettes have changed music, this is also a vivid tribute to a format that refuses to fade away"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 621.3893 M423 Available 33111011193139
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities.



This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers. Scorned by the record industry for "killing music," the cassette tape rippled through scenes corporations couldn't control. For so many, tapes meant freedom--to create, to invent, to connect.



Marc Masters introduces readers to the tape artists who thrive underground; concert tapers who trade bootlegs; mixtape makers who send messages with cassettes; tape hunters who rescue forgotten sounds; and today's labels, which reject streaming and sell music on cassette. Their stories celebrate the cassette tape as dangerous, vital, and radical.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Killing music: the rise of the cassette tape -- Creating music: how cassettes helped launch movements -- Cassettes underground: an international network of tape artists -- The tape traders: recording and sharing live music on cassette -- The tape hunters: traveling the globe to unearth history on cassette -- The tape makers: the culture of personal mixtapes -- Tape's not dead: the cassette comeback.

"Marc Masters explores the surprising ups and downs of the cassette tape's journey through international music culture, showing us the cultural impact of cassettes on music listening, music portability, and music making itself. Winding through early hip-hop tape trading, the deeply personal act of making a mixtape, and even contemporary composers who use cassettes to create musique concrète compositions, this book chronicles the resilient do-it-yourself spirit of cassettes through conversations with scene-setters coupled with deep explorations into music history. More than just the most comprehensive history of how cassettes have changed music, this is also a vivid tribute to a format that refuses to fade away"-- Provided by publisher.

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