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The mixtape created a new way for young people, collectively known as Gen X, to communicate through music, creating playlists to introduce friends to new artists or to share feelings with one another. The interrelated production of the Walkman and the boombox took music from a social experience to a personal one. With these new products, the mixtape moved from a simple way to share music to an enduring art form that reflects the appeal of cassettes and analog technology. In this paper I will discuss how mixtapes became a fundamental aspect of mainstream American youth culture. The time spent crafting the abel, choosing the music, and perfecting the track length demonstrated a tangible investment in the music, the art, and the person the mixtape was intended for. Music, an emotional artform, became a venue for sharing emotionality wordlessly. Discussing mixtapes and sharing them with friends was not a novelty or a concern about bootlegging, it was a normal aspect of life. Novels and music of the era reflected this reality. The importance of the mixtape for a generation has created a twenty-first century legacy of the mixtape with a technostalgia for the curated playlist and a resurgence of interest in cassette technology.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCassettes rose to dominance in the early 1980s not only because of their size and sturdiness, but also because they allowed consumers to record music on their own terms. These compilations, known as mixtapes, solidified the importance of cassette tapes for the era\u0026rsquo;s youth culture. The mixtape created a new way for young people, collectively known as Gen X, to communicate through music, creating playlists to introduce friends to new artists or to share feelings with one another. The interrelated production of the Walkman and the boombox took music from a social experience to a personal one. With these new products, the mixtape moved from a simple way to share music to an enduring art form that reflects the appeal of cassettes and analog technology. In this paper I will discuss how mixtapes became a fundamental aspect of mainstream American youth culture. The time spent crafting the abel, choosing the music, and perfecting the track length demonstrated a tangible investment in the music, the art, and the person the mixtape was intended for. Music, an emotional artform, became a venue for sharing emotionality wordlessly. Discussing mixtapes and sharing them with friends was not a novelty or a concern about bootlegging, it was a normal aspect of life. Novels and music of the era reflected this reality. The importance of the mixtape for a generation has created a twenty-first century legacy of the mixtape with a technostalgia for the curated playlist and a resurgence of interest in cassette technology.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2399/collection_resources/107589/file/209258","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2023_Burns_audio.mp3"]},"duration":1803.67674,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2399/collection_resources/107589/file/209258/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2399/collection_resources/107589/file/209258/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/209/258/original/ARSC_conf_2023_Burns_audio.mp3?1695919875","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1803.67674,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2399/collection_resources/107589/file/209258","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}