C-kasetit suomalaisten käyttäjiensä aistimuistoissa [C-cassettes in the sensory recollections of their users] more

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. This article (in Finnish) analyses written memories of Finnish c-cassette users, focusing on sensory-related recollections. 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.