"Comprehensive and meticulous, this will fascinate media scholars and audiophiles." * Publishers Weekly * Is there a more talismanic piece of Jurassic technology, a greater Gen X madeleine, than the cassette? Long can tell you why that might be. The Last Mixtape is a vibrantly smart media history of ownership, in-built obsolesce, and nostalgiabut its also a rousing defense of the singular intimacies, with music and with one another, afforded by obdurately physical media, in all their creaking, buzzing, analog glory. -- Peter Coviello, University of Illinois Chicago In this brilliant, thought-provoking book, Long uses the mixtapeas an object, as an art form, as a conceptto launch into a wide-ranging meditation on the way we relate to music, media, memory, and so much more. Deftly analyzing how shifts in technology and culture have changed us, Long stands up for physical media, championing how the mixtape 'showed the world what it looked like for culture to co-opt capitalism for a change rather than the other way around.' -- Marc Masters, author of 'High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape'
