Articles, Papers, etc.

Articles

• Reconsidering the Revival of Cassette Tape Culture by Marsh, Calum (PopMatters, December 4, 2009)
• Mixtape History. by Reid, Shaheem; Dukes, Rahman; Calloway, Sway. (MTV)
• Pushing Play: What Makes the Portable Cassette Recorder Interesting by Stadler, Gus (Sounding Out!, August 29, 2011)
• Mixtape Crackdown Sends a Mixed Message by Sanneh, Kelefa  (New York Times, June 16, 2005)
• Tales of the Tape by Oliver Wang (Village Voice, JULY 22, 2003)

Scholarly Papers

• Anderson, Horace B.
  “‘Criminal Minded?’ Mixtape DJs, the Piracy Paradox, and Lessons for the Recording Industry” Tennessee Law Review 76. 1 (2008)
• Ball, Jared.
  “FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show: A Case Study in Mixtape “Radio” and Emancipatory Journalism.” Journal of Black Studies 39.4 (March 2009): 614-634. Print.
  This paper began as a dissertation and resulted in a book, I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto. 
• Ball, Jared.
  “I Mix What I Like! In Defense and Appreciation of the Rap Music Mixtape as “National” and “Dissident” Communication.” International Journal of Communication 5 (2011): 278-297
• Carol Becker, Romi Crawford and Paul D. Miller
  “An Interview with Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky — That Subliminal Kid.” Art Journal, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 82-91
• Earl R. Danielson, Lesley A. Burrows and David A. Rosenberg
  “The Cassette Tape: An Aid to Individualizing High School English.” The English Journal, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Mar., 1973), pp. 441-445
• Farrington, Jim.
  “Preventive Maintenance for Audio Discs and Tapes.” Notes, Vol. 48. No.2 (Second Series), pp.437-445
• Harrison, Anthony Kwame.
  “‘Cheaper than a CD, Plus We Really Mean it’: Bay Area Underground Hip Hop Tapes as Subcultural Artefacts.” Popular Music 25.2 (2006): 283–301. Print.
• Lacasse, Serge, and Andy Bennett.
  “Mixtapes, Memory, and Nostalgia: An Introduction to Phonographic Anthologies.” Incestuous Pop: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music, ed. by Serge Lacasse, Québec, Nota Bene
• Lynch, Marc.
  “King Kendrick and the Ivory Tower: What hip-hop can teach academia. Seriously.” Foreign Policy.
• Maher, George Ciccariello.
  “Brechtian Hip-Hop: Didactics and Self-Production in Post-Gangsta Political Mixtapes.” Journal of Black Studies Vol. 36, (September 2005): 129-160
• Marshall, Lee.
  “For and against the Re cord Industry: An Introduction to Bootleg Collectors and Tape Traders.” Popular Music 22. 1 (Jan., 2003): 57-72. Print.
• Mark Skillz.
  “DJ Hollywood: The Original King of New York.” Medium.com. Cuepoint, 19 Nov. 2014. Web.
• Walsh , Robert and Williams, Saul
  An Interview with Saul Williams. Callaloo, Vol. 29, No. 3, Hip-Hop Music and Culture (Summer, 2006), pp. 728-736