C-kasetit suomalaisten käyttäjiensä aistimuistoissa

Authors

• Kaarina Kilpiö

Abstract

C-cassettes in the sensory memories of their Finnish users

Of all the big changes in music listening during 1970s, the easy, mobile compact cassette technology was the biggest innovation from the viewpoint of the so-called general listener. Among music listening formats, c-cassette technology has a mass-produced, low status image. Cassettes as artefacts are thus remembered for the material they contain and the often socially significant activities they hark back to, and not so much for their intrinsic value, as vinyls or cd’s. The article analyses written memories of Finnish c-cassette users, focusing on their sensory-related features. Sensory and emotionally charged expressions are frequent within the written data and they help to build an understanding of a Finnish cassette culture on the individual user’s level.