VA - (2020) Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age 2xCD

 

Vinyl-on-demand – VOD158

A collection of international cassette culture tracks from a universe of circulating tapes. This set is in the spirit of VOD's other Cassette Culture releases, with a broader horizon. CDs accompany a book which got this review: Intensive 320 page Book written by Jerry Kranitz, it includes a 2CD loaded with almost 160 minutes of Cassette-Culture / DIY Artists. The book takes a social history/analytical approach to the growth of the global cassette culture/homemade music network that sprouted and flourished from the post-punk era through the early 1990s. The author explores how the participants communicated, traded, collaborated, and set up cottage industry labels to distribute their work. A long overdue study of this pivotal yet less than comprehensively documented chapter in the post-punk and 20th century independent arts movement stories.