Wan Kin-Fai reflects on revisiting family memories, recreating his childhood home, and guiding the young actor who plays his ...

A dad recorded a cassette tape for his son's prom. Now, 37 years later, the message is going viral. Ami Weintraub speaks to ...

When Jody Weintraub turned the key in the ignition of the family car on his way to the prom on May 6, 1988, he was surprised to hear his father's voice. Rather than give his son a lecture about taking ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

Christopher Wenn has received funding from a City of Hume COVID-19 Arts Activation Grant in 2020. That’s a great question. To answer it very briefly, music is recorded onto a cassette tape using ...

Despite the odds, cassette tapes are making a comeback. And one family-owned company in Springfield, Missouri is a leader in the revival. Decades ago, a commercial for high-quality cassette tapes ...

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...

The humble cassette seems to be suddenly cool again. What’s driving the craze? And is it a full-blown revival?