Cassette culture

Keywords

tape culture

Works

• Audio Arts, 100+ editions, ed. Bill Furlong, London, 1973-2006. Audio cassette magazine.
• Tellus, 27 editions, eds. Joseph Nechvatal, Claudia Gould, and Carol Parkinson, New York, 1983-1993. Audio cassette magazine; published bimonthly.
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Community and Resources

• Xerox music: UK DIY and cassette culture, 1977-84, a discussion group, facilitated by Andy Broome and Dan Palmer.
• CassetteCulture.net, started by Kevin Thorne and Mike Honeycutt in 2005.
• The Living Archive of Underground Music, by Don Campau.
• Scans of various zines and catalogues by Hal McGee, hosted on Internet Archive.

Events

• Cassette Culture, WORM, Rotterdam, 25 Apr 2014. [2]
• WORM Pirate Bay’s Cassette Store Day, WORM, Rotterdam, 14 Oct 2017.

Literature

Books

• Robin James, Cassette Mythos, Autonomedia, 1990, 206 pp. [3] [4] [5] Accompanying CD in MP3
• Charles Hirschkind, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics, Columbia University Press, 2006, 288 pp. [6]
• Thomas Bey William Bailey, Unofficial Release: Self-Released And Handmade Audio In Post-Industrial Society, Belsona Books Ltd., 2012.

Articles, theses, papers

• Rasmus Fleischer, "Kassettband och kassettersättning", 2005. (Swedish)
• Don Campau, "A brief history of cassette culture", The Living Archive of Underground Music, 2009.
• Ian Matthew Staub, Redubbing the Underground: Cassette Culture in Transition, Wesleyan University, 2010.
• Jude Rogers, "Total rewind: 10 key moments in the life of the cassette", The Observer, 30 August 2013.
• Christian Ulrik Andersen, Søren Bro Pold, "Ten Theses on Cassette Tapes, History, and Interface Criticism", post-digital-research blog, 30 September 2013.
• Staalzine.
• Cassette culture at Wikipedia

Films

• Grindstone Redux, film about the underground music scene of the 1980s, dir. Andrew Szava-Kovats, 2009.

See also

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