High Bias

The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

De: Marc Masters

Narrado por: Paul Brion

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities.

This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers. Scorned by the record industry for "killing music," the cassette tape rippled through scenes corporations couldn't control. For so many, tapes meant freedom—to create, to invent, to connect.

Marc Masters introduces listeners to the tape artists who thrive underground; concert tapers who trade bootlegs; mixtape makers who send messages with cassettes; tape hunters who rescue forgotten sounds; and today's labels, which reject streaming and sell music on cassette. Their stories celebrate the cassette tape as dangerous, vital, and radical.

©2023 Marc Masters (P)2023 Tantor

Meahhhhh

I absolutely thought this would be a better book. It’s dry and boring. Really doesn’t cover much that I didn’t know or was not interested in. He goes on long tangents about things that are totally boring. Certainly not very interesting. Skip it.