{"id":306,"date":"2025-11-06T08:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/?p=306"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:26:42","slug":"the-legacy-of-the-cassette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of the Cassette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In case you haven\u2019t noticed, young people today have a newfound love for cassettes. Tons of notable artists, like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, or Harry Styles, have been releasing some of their most recent albums on cassette, despite the existence of modern alternatives. In\u00a0 an indie-published magazine called Culture Cringe<\/em> from 2013, we can see the author is encouraging the readers to get out their old cassette players in honor of \u201cCassette Store Day.\u201d1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Culture Cringe<\/em> promoting Cassette Store Day, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why do young people today, most of which weren\u2019t around for the height of the cassettes popularity in the 1980s, have a love for cassettes?\u00a0 Professor Joanna Demers from the USC\u2019s Thornton School of Music provides one perspective that this revival of cassettes is not one of pure nostalgia, because of course young people weren\u2019t around for cassettes in the \u201880s, but a creation of a fictional nostalgia for creating and experimenting with playlists and mix-tapes.2<\/a><\/sup> There could be many arguments made for why cassettes are experiencing a revival in American music culture, but at the core of this discussion is that fact that cassettes have never really died in the first place. The use of cassettes, whether it\u2019s to share, create, or listen to music, continues to reflect and shape American\u2019s tastes, values, and experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

  1. Culture Cringe. Culture Cringe Cassette Releases<\/em>. Self-published, 2013. https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/culture-cringe-cassette-releases_202502\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up<\/a>. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  2. \u00a0Joanna Demers. \u201cCassette Tape Revival as Creative Anachronism.\u201d Twentieth-Century Music<\/em> 14, no. 1 (2017): 109\u201317. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S1478572217000093<\/a>. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In case you haven\u2019t noticed, young people today have a newfound love for cassettes. Tons of notable artists, like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, or Harry Styles, have been releasing some of their most recent albums on cassette, despite the existence of modern alternatives. In\u00a0 an indie-published magazine called Culture Cringe from 2013, we can see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Culture Cringe. Culture Cringe Cassette Releases<\/em>. Self-published, 2013. https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/culture-cringe-cassette-releases_202502\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up<\/a>.\",\"id\":\"6ecf9d17-9cdd-4192-a7e2-bc17b4557eda\"},{\"content\":\"\u00a0Joanna Demers. \u201cCassette Tape Revival as Creative Anachronism.\u201d Twentieth-Century Music<\/em> 14, no. 1 (2017): 109\u201317. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S1478572217000093<\/a>.\",\"id\":\"7ce5189d-685b-4291-bc47-9a0a25e15325\"}]"},"categories":[8],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","tag-impact","tag-mixtapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/cassettes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}