"The Empowering Style of Cassette Tapes"
This weekend I read "High Bias," Marc Masters' terrific new history of the cultural impact of the cassette recorder
I've always thought cassette culture had a distinctly early-internet-like-vibe
Permissionless, inexpensive, amateur-propelled, etc
My essay on it all: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-empowering-style-of-cassette-tapes-e3a620590d42
A free "friend" link in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-empowering-style-of-cassette-tapes-e3a620590d42?sk=b96d3fb6fb34a3e554db9eabc5101b8b
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