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by Peter Manuel


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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, and variety of Indian popular music and its patterns of dissemination and consumption.

Manuel shows that the cassette revolution, however, has brought new contradictions and problems to Indian culture. While inexpensive cassettes revitalized local subcultures and community values throughout the subcontinent, they were also a vehicle for regional and political factionalism, new forms of commercial vulgarity, and, disturbingly, the most provocative sorts of hate-mongering and religious chauvinism.

Cassette Culture is the first scholarly account of Indian popular music and the first case study of a technological revolution now occurring throughout the world. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in modern India, communications theory, world popular music, or contemporary global culture.

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  • Title Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India
  • Author Peter Manuel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 322
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 1993-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226504018 / 0226504018
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.06 x 0.86 in (23.06 x 15.39 x 2.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - Social aspects, Audiocassettes
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92027626
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.484

About the author

Peter Manuel is assistant professor in the Department of Art, Music, and Philosophy at John Jay College (City University of New York). His other publications include Popular Musics of the Non-Western World, Thumri in Historical and Stylistic Perspectives, and Essays on Cuban Music.
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