Radiolab: Mixtape: How The Cassette Changed The World
Written by Radiolab
Narrated by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser
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About this audiobook
Before the podcast and the smartphone, there was the cassette tape and the Walkman — two devices that, although not considered much today, were revolutionary. They were recordable, rewritable, spliceable, compact, and mobile. For the first time, they allowed you to move through the world and listen to a voice speaking only to you. These cassette tapes brought us together, pulled us apart, and forever changed how we say those three simple words, ‘I love you.’ In five episodes from around the world, Mixtape explores the impact the cassette had and continues to have today.
Editor's Note
Private, portable realities…
The original Walkman didn’t walk just so the iPhone could run. The invention of the cassette tape let us, for the first time, create our own private, portable realities. This audiobook compilation from the podcast “Radiolab” tells the history of cassettes, with rich soundscapes and fascinating findings.
Radiolab
Hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser, Radiolab was created in 2002 by Jad Abumrad as an exploration of science, philosophy, and ethics using innovative composition and sound design. Radiolab has expanded and evolved to become a radio program, podcast, and digital platform for long-form journalism and storytelling. The show challenges its listeners’ preconceived notions about how the world works. Radiolab provokes, it moves, it delights, and it asks its audience to see the world around them anew. Since its founding nearly two decades ago, Radiolab has won some of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including two George Foster Peabody Awards, Third Coast awards, The Silver Gavel, as well as other accolades. The show has spawned successful spinoff series, like More Perfect, Gonads, The Other Latif, G, Border Trilogy, and Terrestrials. For more information, visit radiolab.org.
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Reviews for Radiolab
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just like their other work, radiolab has done a great job! This audiobook is so creative and well researched! I am so amazed on how they were able to connect a seemingly simple device to very important events in history! Definitely an audiobook to listen to!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Insightful enjoyable humorous enlightenment entertaining people stories life events history
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5very interesting stories, fast paced in the beginning then the other half was kinda slow like they were improvising or something, still worth it.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Five stars and then some. Stop and listen to it now.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Far more than I bargained for!! Easy listen, educational and fun!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really enjoyed this. I had no idea the tape recorder was so revolutionary, but then of course it was... a more effective way of spreading a message is always going to be, no matter what that message is.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was such an interesting audio! I loved how the stories flowed together as it told the story of recordings. Well done!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A fascinating review of the global impact of the cassette tape. I also loved it because it covered many major historical events that took place during my youth and the youth of my parents. A great listen!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a great read. I specifically liked the way they traveled through so many variances of taped media over time.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fun insightful story. Well, not a story. History retold. Learn something new everyday. Highly recommend.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Funny and relevant
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5It has nothing to do with cassette tapes or mixtapes. Complete rambling about all these tertiary stories
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a beautiful intriguing story. Loved it! Will leave the reader inspired.
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