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Download ! Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture PDF by * Thurston Moore eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture Driving in Cars While Smoking This neat little curio--along with sections of Hornby's "High Fidelity" [1995]--is a great artifact for those of us old enough to have shared music with friends via the cassette tape. Before mix-CDs, cassette tapes were a great way to hip your friends to new bands or to write a love letter to your latest crush without having to rely on your own bad poetry. Instead, you had to create a track list that would be impressionable on the recipient, and come up with some co
| Title | : | Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789311992 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
Thurston Moore is a founding member of the rock group Sonic Youth. . His previous books include Alabama Wildman, Fuck a Hippie, But Be a Punk, and Total Poon. He also runs EcstaticPeace, a music, art, and literature website. He is also a published poet
Driving in Cars While Smoking This neat little curio--along with sections of Hornby's "High Fidelity" [1995]--is a great artifact for those of us old enough to have shared music with friends via the cassette tape. Before mix-CDs, cassette tapes were a great way to hip your friends to new bands or to write a love letter to your latest crush without having to rely on your own bad poetry. Instead, you had to create a track list that would be impressionable on the recipient, and come up with some coo. a limited mix Like the editor of this book, I grew of age in the thick of the mix-tape era, and to a certain extent, mourn its passing. And like many of the contributors to this celebration of "cassette culture," I spent hundreds of hours obsessing over track selection, sequencing, fade-ins, the overt and subtextual messages embedded in each mix, liner notes, cover art, etc. So, I tend to gravitate toward books that invoke that lost world (sorry folks, the mix CD is similar, and I. Thurston throws a book together at the last minute I had really high hopes for this book.Being one of the last people I know that still makes mix tapes on a regular basis I was excited for that feeling of togetherness and validation that occurs only when you find a network of people "out there" that see something the same way you do. I was distinctly dissapointed. I am a huge fan of Thurston Moore and I will say that his pieces of writing are the only moments of this book worth reading (and they are deffinately worth
He is also a published poet. He also runs EcstaticPeace, a music, art, and literature website. About the Author Thurston Moore is a founding member of the rock group Sonic Youth. . His previous books include Alabama Wildman, Fuck a Hippie, But Be a Punk, and Total Poon
Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture explores the sound mixes and art we created in our bedrooms long before iTunes and Photoshop.” Michael Dougherty, Blackbook Magazine. It allowed us to listen to music in a new way, privately.Artist and musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) looks back at the plastic gadget that first let us make our own compilations. By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio. Fast-forward. Pause. Rewind. Portable, inexpensive, and durablethe new format was an instant success. Fall 2004. It has become part of our vocabulary when talking about the momentum of our livesSince Phillips launched the compact audio cassette at the 1963 Berlin Radio Show, our relationship with music has never been the same. Mix Tape shares the treasured works (and the stories behind them) of over 50 dedicated home tapers, including Elizabeth Peyton, DJ Spooky, Jim O’Rourke, Allison Anders, and Mike Watt. From the Romantic Tape to the Break-up Tape, the Road Trip Tape to the “Indoctrination” Tape, the art and text that emerged was of the mix cassette as a new way of resequencing music to make sense of our most stubbornly inexpressible feelingsa way of explaining ourselves to someone we love, or to ourselves. Stop. So, perhaps it’s fitting that Thurston Moore is working on a book tha
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