"Marc Masters explores the surprising ups and downs of the cassette tape's journey through international music culture, showing us the cultural impact of cassettes on music listening, music portability, and music making itself. Winding through early hip-hop tape trading, the deeply personal act of making a mixtape, and even contemporary composers who use cassettes to create musique concrète compositions, this book chronicles the resilient do-it-yourself...

"Listening to someone else's mix tapes is a huge breach of trust. But KitKat was dead... and curiosity got the better of me"--Page 4 of cover.

"Mixtape Nostalgia analyzes the role of the mixtape as a site of collective memory tied to youth culture, community identity, and sharing music. The author looks at the history of the mixtape from the early 1980s and the rise of the cassette as a fundamental aspect of the music industry"--

Features Cage reading a mesostic (a literary form generated by chance operations) to allow the listener to experience it as delivered; also features a selection from the question-and-answer seminars that conveys the lively flavor of the event.

Elizabeth's book collection has gotten so big that her shelves are collapsing. Her front door has disappeared entirely. She comes up with a spendid solution. Listen as you read along with this book and CD set.