7
votes
‘It was a way to share your musical experiences’: Two new books explore the cassette tape's contribution to music
Link information
This data is scraped automatically and may be incorrect.
- Authors
- Michael Hann
- Published
- Nov 15 2023
- Word count
- 1622 words
Whole genres of music were built on audio cassettes. It was a way for small, unknowns to get exposure and for people to trade underground music at a time when it wasn't really possible otherwise. Artists would make simple recordings, audiences would make bootleg ones, things that were on independent radio stations would get recorded by listeners, and then they'd all get dubbed onto mix tapes and passed around.
House, punk and hip hop all had that going on. And the internet replicated that atmosphere on a wider scale.