Books
Duester, B. (2025). Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age. New York: Bloomsbury.
Duester, B. (forthcoming). Sonic City Majuro: Marshallese Everyday Life and the Sound Knowledge of In-Between. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Refereed Journal Articles
Duester, B. (2025). ‘The Cassette Comeback’: Debunking a Tenacious Narrative. Continuum.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2451943
Duester, B. (2023). Symbolic DIY Environmentalism: Between Sustainability Statements and Green Pressure. DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society, 1(2). (Open Access)
DOI: 10.1177/27538702231164487
Duester, B. (2023). “There’s a Lot of Freedom You Can Have with That Kind of Thing” Vinyl and Cassette Split Releases in the Digital Age. Media, Culture & Society, 45(7). (Open Access) DOI: 10.1177/01634437231179347
Duester, B. and Bennett, A. (2023). How does Materiality ‘bite back’? Cassette Tapes in local, translocal and virtual Music Scenes. Journal of Consumer Culture, 3(4).
Chapters
Duester, B. (2023). Outsiders in Outsider Cities? Expatriates in the DIY Music Scenes of Nagoya and Fukuoka. In: A. Bennett, D. Cashman, B. Green and N. Lewandoski (Eds.) Popular Music Scenes – A regional and rural perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Düster, B. (2020). Obsolete Technology? The Significance of the Cassette Format in 21st Century Japan. In T. Tófalvy & E. Barna (Eds.), From Cassettes to Stream: Essays on the Relationship between Technology, Popular Music Scenes and the Changing Media Ecosystem. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Düster, B. and Nowak, R. (2019). Cassette Cultures in Berlin. Resurgence, DIY Freedom or Sellout? In A. Bennett & P. Guerra (Eds.), DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Gálvez, J. and Düster, B. (2017). “So schlecht, dass es wieder gut ist“ − Trash-Musik und die Frage nach Professionalität im Internetzeitalter (‘So bad that it’s good again’ − Trash music and the question of professionalism in the Internet age). In K. Holsträter & M. Fischer (Eds.), Lied und populäre Kultur, Vol 62. Münster: Waxmann.
Other Publications
Duester, B. (2023). Rewinding the Times – Audio Cassettes are back! In Griffith University (Ed.), Enlighten. Available at: https://enlighten.griffith.edu.au/rewinding-the-times/
Düster, B. (2017). #Tapeporn – Some Thoughts on Doing Cassettes… and that Netflix Series everyone talks about. In L. Weber, M. Kobel & A. Dzialocha (Eds.), BLATT 3000, Vol 8. Berlin.
