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Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age

Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age


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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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Note on Translations List of Figures Preface 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 References Notes Index

About the Author :
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.

Review :
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. Ben Duester debunks the revivalist discourse surrounding cassettes by reminding us how they’ve persisted not just in language classes, prisons, or religious ministries but countless DIY music scenes. At the same time, Duester shows how the format has taken on a surprising new cast in the digital mediascape, valued not just as an attractive container for a download code but precisely for its noisy charm, stubborn temporality, and exclusive demand on the listener’s attention. This is the most complete account yet published of the cassette’s postmillennial resonance.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798765105948
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Sub Title: Tape Jams in the New Media Age
  • Width: 158 mm
  • ISBN-10: 876510594X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 500 gr


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