The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities… More here.

I don’t think I appreciated the impact of the cassette tape when I was young because I preferred the sound of vinyl, and still do to this day. And then the CD came along and the tape was merely an inconvenient memory assigned to my music bin by the short-lived Mini Disc.

This, however, looks like a decent book and one which will no doubt offers snippets of information that few of us were aware of. Bought...