Tomorrow on Cassette

Benjamin Duester is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He is a cultural sociologist interested in the intersection of popular music, material culture and political ecology. He is 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.

• Acknowledgements Note on Translations List of FiguresPreface 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 ReferencesNotesIndex

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.