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Category: Book

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.

Lance Scott Walker

“Mixtape Nostalgia” released with Glowing Reviews

“Mixtape Nostalgia is a deeply personal book that diligently documents the evolution of the mixtape.

MXM Featured in “Hit the Decks Fanzine”

Fanzine, This and That Tapes

Damn Son Where Did You Find This?

A book about US hiphop mixtape cover art

CASSETTE: a documentary

Dj Red Alert, Lou Ottens, Rob Sheffield

The Art Behind the Tape

The Art Behind the Tape is the first coffee table book dedicated to the history of mixtape cover art.

Atlanta, DJ Mars, Mixtape Scholarship, publication, The Art Behind the Tape

Digital Griots

“a little love for the DJ as griot and master rhetor…and the inspiration for Digital Griots.” Scholar Adam J. Banks … More

African-American, Dr. Adam Banks, Mixtapes, rhetoric

Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop

Portraying a vibrant, but often overlooked, music scene, this amplified edition of Houston Rap Tapes includes new interviews of Scarface, Slim Thug, Lez Moné, B L A C K I E, Lil’ Keke, and Sire Jukebox of the original Ghetto Boys, as well as many additional photographs.

DJ Screw, Houston, Lance Scott Walker

The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness

Taking its title from Danger Mouse’s pioneering mashup of Jay-Z’s The Black Album and the Beatles’ The White Album, this … More

Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India

Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India by: Peter Manuel Format: Paperback – 302 pages ISBN: 0226504018 Publisher: … More

cassette culture, india, technology

The Mixtape as Emancipatory Journalism

I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto by Jared A. Ball Format: Paperback ISBN: 1849350574 Publisher: AK Press “This … More

Mix tape: The Art of Cassette Culture edited by Thurston Moore

Mix tape: The Art of Cassette Culture edited by Thurston Moore Format: Hardcover (96 pages) ISBN: 10:0789311992 Publisher: Universe (May … More

Cassette from My Ex

An art form combining the skills of a DJ with the intimacy of a letter, a good mixtape was the ultimate audio valentine.

Cassette, Jason Bitner

In loving memory of Justo Faison
(March 17, 1969 - May 14, 2005)

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