Professor reflects on nostalgia for analog cassette players

Oliver Wang, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Cal State, Long Beach, wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times about the revived interest in analog music cassette tapes. He wrote, "It’s easy to forget that when cassettes debuted in the mid-1960s, the technology was groundbreaking. Not only were the players far more portable than turntables but unlike records, tapes were resilient to being tossed about. Even more profoundly, cassettes democratized access to the act of recording itself since cassette technology required minimal infrastructure and cost."