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Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... This chapter considers the cassette's contribution to the careers of independent rock musicians in relation to the music industry's favored formats. Although cassette releases helped launch many indie careers, they most often were understood as promotional instruments. Musicians valued...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 13 May 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397540-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9754-0
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... This chapter considers how the self-released cassette contributed to independent rock music and culture, serving as a means of distribution and a symbol of community. Cassette culture emerged in the 1980s as a network of musical outsiders who communicated by mail. As different as cassette...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... This chapter considers the clash between the radical accessibility of the cassette and the critical discernment of the music press in the 1980s. As cassette labels sprang up across the US and the UK, they gained the notice of many music zines and radio stations, yet critics struggled to discern...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... cassettes independent music distribution ...
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... cassettes discovery scenes canons ...
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... cassettes formats revival analog ...
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... gatekeeping cassettes release music press ...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... Since the late 2000s, creators and consumers of popular music have expressed renewed interest in music distributed through cassettes. The perseverance of the cassette serves as a lesson regarding our overemphasis on novelty and disruption in histories of media technologies. Without discounting...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... This chapter considers the revival of cassette releases in the 2000s and 2010s. Although annual cassette sales still amount to only a few hundred thousand units, such figures say nothing of the feelings newly invested in the format. Cassettes have become a refuge from the daunting plenitude...
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... media history formats cassettes independent music ...
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... recording magnetic tape cassettes home taping ...
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... formats independent music cassettes vinyl records ...
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By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... mix tapes cassettes hip-hop independent music ...
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By Tim Lawrence
Published: 09 September 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7392-6
... Danceteria Jim Fouratt Rudolf Piper Mark Kamins Sean Cassette midtown ...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... This chapter considers the evolution of home taping from reel-to-reel tapes to cassettes. Most open-reel recorders marketed for home use sold poorly, yet high-end recorders for home stereo systems became popular among hi-fi enthusiasts. Home taping and trading of copyrighted music on reel...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... This chapter considers the cassette as a format of unauthorized, secondhand distribution. The ubiquitous exchange of re-recorded music via cassette contributed to cycles of discovery and creative ferment among indie musicians and fans alike. Subcultural sounds neglected by mainstream radio...
Book Chapter

By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
Book Chapter

By Rob Drew
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3