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Fiction. Essays, reports, art, stories, comics, and manifestoes from the citizens of the real music underground, where the cassette tape and the home studio have provoked a mass exodus into basements, bedrooms or garages around the world. These networkers, in conjunction with the Zine Culture and the International Postal System, manically produce, trade, and distribute the
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Paperback, 192 pages
Published
January 1st 1992
by Autonomedia
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This book is full of intelligent writing and it holds up to contemporary scrutiny, in spite of it being primarily about cassettes, the culture around cassettes, and its having been published in 1992. Theoretical essays and academic reports share book-space with drawings, adverts, and personal diary entries.
There are a couple of great essays on plagiarism and music-as-commodity, namely "Plunderphonics Or, Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative" by John Oswald; "No More Masterpieces Ma ...more
This book is full of intelligent writing and it holds up to contemporary scrutiny, in spite of it being primarily about cassettes, the culture around cassettes, and its having been published in 1992. Theoretical essays and academic reports share book-space with drawings, adverts, and personal diary entries.
There are a couple of great essays on plagiarism and music-as-commodity, namely "Plunderphonics Or, Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative" by John Oswald; "No More Masterpieces Ma ...more

Feb 10, 2011
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Robin James, the editor of "Cassette Mythos", definitely knew his shit. I wonder if most people have forgotten about this since Thurston Moore's "Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture" came out 13 yrs later. I hope not. Just the title of Moore's bk is an immediate give-away: "mix tapes" are the lowest common denominator language of the uncreative just as "bands" & "songs" are: cassettes conceived of as just a medium for putting together yr favorite SONGS by yr favorite BANDS - a consumer activit
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