Mixtape Classwork by Laura G

I saved up my allowance to buy a pack of blank 90 min cassette tapes and recorded the hits from off the radio. Back in those days, the radio was it . . .

CASSETTE: A Documentary Mixtape Screening at Maysles Documentary Center

BUY TICKETS HERE Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Zack Taylor and Mixtape Museum Founder Regan Sommer McCoy CASSETTE: A DOCUMENTARY MIXTAPE … More

Never Mind Spotify—Remember the Lost Art of the Mixtape

I made my first mixtape before I had the know-how or the gear—that’s how badly I wanted into the world of big brothers and attic bedrooms. The spirit was willing, the tech unable. I placed my Panasonic next to my brother’s stereo speaker, played my favorite songs from his collection—Skynyrd and Springsteen—and pressed record.

Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes

Harlem World Released

Harlem World is a timely and powerful record of mixtape history. Mael masterfully weaves soulful stories into a cinematic narrative, delivering a remarkable collection of mixtape memories. Arriving on hip hop’s golden anniversary, this classic is a love letter to the genre, our hip hop heroes, community collections and archives, Harlem, and the cassette.

— Regan Sommer McCoy, The Mixtape Museum

A Snapshot in Hip Hop featuring Angel Ibanez

A Snapshot in Hip Hop: A Conversation with Angel Ibanez and Friends The School of the Visual Arts DEI Office … More

Why Hip-Hop Has Many Fathers by Peter Noel

Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved?

Regrets

Now when I hear certain songs, I think about my collection and its significance to my biography and the culture.

The Enduring Romance of Mixtapes

The Enduring Romance of Mixtapes
By Andee Tagle

Ellect: Rap Attack B-Side

This mixtape was my introduction to Hip-Hop and Rap music as a toddler.

Mixtape Museum Chief Curator Appointed as Virginia Union University’s Visiting Hip Hop Scholar

During McCoy’s appointment as Visiting Scholar, she will expand The Mixtape Museum’s Mixtape Memory Collection to include Virginia-based mixtape memories.

Get Your Mind Right: Hip Hop, Entrepreneurship, and Wellness

Join us for an in-conversation about Hip Hop, Entrepreneurship, and Wellness. Joining us will be: Dave Bellevue, Oxymorrons, Swag for … More

Protected: R3Mx: An Embodied Structured Mixtape

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Jahan Nostra: ESP Recordings (1994)

Pushing Play: What Makes the Portable Cassette Recorder Interesting?

July 5: Hip Hop Heresies at Strand Bookstore

Join us for an in-person event with Associate Professor and Co-Director of the LGBTQ+ Center at St. John’s University Shanté Paradigm … More

Mixtape Nostalgia by Jehnie Burns

I have so many mixtape memories from high school and college that I decided to write a book about mixtapes.

DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution by Lance Scott Walker

Lance Scott Walker has interviewed nearly everyone who knew Screw, from childhood friends to collaborators to aficionados who evangelized Screw’s tapes—millions of which made their way around the globe—as well as the New York rap moguls who honored him.

Street Dreams

I remember driving home from work and listening to Clue on Hot 97.

Memory, Mixtape & Scholarship | Hip Hop at Virginia Union University

Hip Hop at VUU is dedicated to exploring African American history and culture through a Hip Hop lens. This exploration … More

Justo Presents: The Mixtape Documentary

MIXTAPE Documentary presented by Tribeca and Universal Music Group

The premiere event of Mixtape will take place Thursday, April 7, at The United Palace in Washington Heights in New … More

Mixtape Nostalgia

“Mixtape Nostalgia is a deeply personal book that diligently documents the evolution of the mixtape. Crafted like a perfectly curated mixtape, it traces the ebb and flow of the medium through its analog and digital eras, across genres, while thoughtfully centering the voices of ‘mixtapers.’ Jehnie I. Burns presents a masterpiece that’s essential to mixtape scholarship.”

– Regan Sommer McCoy, Founder and Chief Curator, Mixtape Museum

January ‘93

“This mixtape memory is an excerpt from my manuscript The Divine Chronicles. It is literary a mixtape.”

Archiving Hip Hop: Community-Based Approaches

REGISTER HERE The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Continuing Education Webinar Series presents: Archiving Hip Hop: Community Based Approaches. Since … More