Tomorrow on Cassette

Tape Jams in the New Media Age

AvBenjamin Duester

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Growing sales numbers for cassette tapes in the Global North since the early 2010s have led mass media outlets to repeatedly proclaim a tape revival.Yet, the grassroots projects of devotees in niche punk, noise and hip-hop DIY music scenes have continuously upheld the unique material benefits of cassettes while wider society considered them a relic of bygone times. Contrasting the popular notion of current cassette use being a mere side effect of the blazing interest in the vinyl record, this book argues that the lasting embrace of tapes is based on complex cultural, economic and material factors that shape cassettes as hybrid artefacts of music in the new media age.Drawing on interviews with 85 experts active in DIY music cultures as independent record shop operators, musicians, event promoters, fans and collectors across Japan, Australia and the United States, Tomorrow on Cassette presents a seminal exploration of how the cassette tape’s significance as a tool for material expression, creativity and sociality perseveres in the 21st-century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-12
Mått:158 x 230 x 22 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798765105948

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Naturvetenskap:allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Kultur och medier inom Samhälle och politik

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Benjamin Duester is a cultural sociologist interested in the intersection of popular music, material culture and political ecology. He is an ERC-fellow in musicology at Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany, and a co-founder of the international skate research network SSHRED (Skateboarding, Sustainability, Health Research and Environmental Design) for which he co-convenes the SSHRED seminar series.

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Tapes Forever! Obsolete Never! With Tomorrow on Cassette, Duester sends the audiocassette tape reeling into the future of physical sound media, while keeping an ear to the deep reverberations of its undergrounds, past and present.

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Acknowledgements Note on Translations List of FiguresPreface Part I: Industry Artefact 1. A Brief History of the Cassette 2. The State of the Cassette Industry 3. ‘Tapes Never Went Away’Part II: Material Memento 4. Streaming or Owning Music? 5. They’re Not Making ‘Em Like They Used To… 6. A Visual Turn of the Tape Part III: Cultural Currency 7. Sticky Tape: Cassettes and Social Cohesion 8. Cassette Store Day Epilogue: Tomorrow on Cassette or: a Plastic Fantastic Dilemma ReferencesNotesIndex