Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation
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Rowman & Littlefield is now Bloomsbury! The page for Mixtape Nostalgia has moved.
Bookshop.org (I support independent booksellers - but the book is more expensive on their page :/ )
As my bio says: I love mixtapes, live music, and 80s/90s nostalgia. I update with pics of cassettes, mixtapes, and other analog tech most days.
Paperback Book Release!
Paperback Book Release!
The book signing and book talk at the Government Center in Pittsburgh June 2023 was a fun chat with friends and fans.
"At the end of the 2000 movie "High Fidelity," John Cusack's character resolves to make a mixtape for his girlfriend, 'full of stuff she likes.'
The custom cassette is a vessel for his feelings, just like the tape that plays Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes' as Cusack's character hoists a boombox into the air in 1989's "Say Anything."
'He doesn't know how to use the words, he can't express it, but music does it for him,' said Jehnie Burns, Ph.D., associate professor of history. 'With mixtapes, you can put all the different emotions in whatever order you want, and that's part of the appeal of them.'
The mixtape as a form of expression is one of the concepts Burns explores in her new book, "Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation,' ..."
Popular Music Books in Progress
Popular Music Books in Progress
Presentation May 25, 2021
David Arditi, Kyle Barnett, and Jehnie Burns
In a world of digital streaming, nostalgia for physical media, and a current dearth of live music, how do individuals and corporations tackle access to music? While distribution of music has changed, the desire to hear the recorded music commodity remains the same. This conversation will focus on the recording industry and different ways audiences have tackled access to music through a discussion about David Arditi’s Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society, Kyle Barnett’s Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry, and Jehnie Burns’ Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation.
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