Unspooled
How the Cassette Made Music Shareable
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2023
232 pages
978-1-4780-2771-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rob Drew traces the history of the cassette tape, showing how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players became a mode of musical and interpersonal communication as well as a source of cultural capital.
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03/2024
Duke University Press
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Rob Drew is Professor of Communication at Saginaw Valley State University and author of Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Love, Theft, and Audiotape 1
1. Home Taping and Its Discontents 25
2. The Cassette Underground and Aboveground 48
3. Gatekeeping the Cassette Release 71
4. Cassettes in a Vinyl Universe 84
5. Cultures of Re-Recording 102
6. Mix Tape Memories and Fictions 127
Conclusion. Your Hiss Is What I Miss 153
Notes 165
Bibliography 183
Index 207
Introduction. Love, Theft, and Audiotape 1
1. Home Taping and Its Discontents 25
2. The Cassette Underground and Aboveground 48
3. Gatekeeping the Cassette Release 71
4. Cassettes in a Vinyl Universe 84
5. Cultures of Re-Recording 102
6. Mix Tape Memories and Fictions 127
Conclusion. Your Hiss Is What I Miss 153
Notes 165
Bibliography 183
Index 207
