Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India

by Peter Manuel

Book Overview

In Cassette Culture, Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium--the portable cassette player--caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational LP manufacturer to a free-for-all among hundreds of local cassette producers. The result was a revolution in the quantity, quality,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226504018
• ISBN13: 9780226504018
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"