The Must-Have Cassette Culture Book - Available Again!

We're delighted to open the paperback version of this must-have book about the cassette scene of the 80's and 90's.

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This meticulously researched book is full of firsthand information and anecdotes from artists and innovators that join the dots to show how the network grew and interconnected creators and audiences. Embracing the bold challenges of assembling a comprehensive cultural history that straddles countries, musical genres and ideologies, Cassette Culture is an engrossing and weighty read.

Uniquely, Kranitz roots the artist networks of the cassette scene within earlier fan communities of 1930s sci-fi and the scrupulously DIY approach of 1950s Sun Ra. Kranitz’s wide lens contextualizes what emerged with the arrival of the hometapers with foundational concepts from the Dada and Fluxus movements. You will emerge from reading this book not just with an understanding of the connections of contemporary music and culture but with a thought that maybe, just maybe, there is another way of doing things.

This second edition includes multiple updates. The Introduction has been reworked, multiple people quoted from the 1980s-90s small press publications/zines have been tapped for feedback from a contemporary perspective, plus other ‘bits and pieces’ additions. The scope of the book has not changed. Kranitz is still laser focused on the hometapers and post-punk era network of communication, collaboration and exchange.

Paperback, 337 pages

Acclaim for Cassette Culture

Jerry Kranitz’s book evokes the almost-clandestine networks, the home-dubbed love and revolution that snailed its way through the mail, a thing that didn’t need permission, a thing that thrived precisely because it was excluded. It was raw, unruly, and totally outside of the algorithm’s grasp. It was rough, slow and amateur, but it built real connections across borders and physical isolation. The is how we misfits found each other, making noise outside of commerce. A countercultural web stuck together with trust, photocopies and international reply coupons.
– Nigel Ayers, Nocturnal Emissions

Cassette Culture is the result of 10 years of painstaking research. It is an enjoyable and captivating read and, although meticulously researched, it thankfully avoids becoming too dry and academic and will appeal to both lay and scholarly readers alike. As someone who was thoroughly immersed in the DIY cassette scene of the late 1970s and early 80s, I recommend this book to anyone who was directly involved and would like to relive those exciting times, or simply wishes to discover more about this fascinating – and often forgotten – period in the history of underground music.
– Richard Rupenus, The New Blockaders


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