1 Because of the constraints of academic publishing, the photos are monochrome and hardly sharp. Fortunately, a clear full-colour reproduction of the first can been seen in a 2023 online article by Simon in Al Jazeera. Andrew Simon, ‘Sixty Years of Sound: The Cassette's Past Present and Future in Egypt’, Al Jazeera, 30 August 2023, www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/8/30/sixty-years-of-sound-the-cassettes-past-present-and-future-in-egypt (accessed 17 May 2024).

2 For broader studies of music censorship and piracy, see Hall, Patricia, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)Google Scholar and Kernfeld, Barry, Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)Google Scholar.

3 Cusick, Suzanne G., ‘“You Are in a Place That Is Out of the World …”: Music in the Detention Camps of the “Global War on Terror”’, Journal of the Society for American Music 2 (2008), 1–26Google Scholar; and Devine, Kyle, Decomposed: A Political Economy of Music (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019)Google Scholar.

4 See, for example, Steve Knopper, ‘Cassettes are Making a Comeback, But Can Production Keep Up?’, Billboard, 1 February 2023, www.billboard.com/pro/cassette-tapes-comeback-taylor-swift-artists/ (accessed 17 May 2024); and Masters, Marc, ‘Tape's Not Dead: The Cassette Comeback’, in High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 151–73Google Scholar.