{"id":1450,"date":"2010-10-26T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/10\/farewell_to_the_walkman\/"},"modified":"2010-10-26T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T07:31:10","slug":"farewell_to_the_walkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/farewell_to_the_walkman.php","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Walkman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s not a great shock that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2371370,00.asp\">Sony is discontinuing its Sony Walkman<\/a> portable audio cassette player (already has, actually&#8230;get &#8217;em while they last). But it&#8217;s a melancholy moment nonetheless. Back in the late &#8217;70s and early &#8217;80s, the Walkman was a glimpse of the mobile and personal relationship with music yet to come. Instead of being anchored near your home stereo or in your car (if you had a car or a home stereo), the Walkman moved with you. And instead of playing for (or bothering) the world like a boombox, the Walkman played only for you.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I bought my first Walkman with my own money back in high school ($90, about the size of cigar box, which seemed impossibly small). And it felt like I suddenly had the power to curate the soundtrack of my life. It was freedom, and expression, and control, all in one.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Granted, previous teenage generations had protest and motorcycles and hot rods to express that freedom, and I had a block of plastic, motors, and circuitry that only changed the world for one person at a time. And granted, changing our own individual worlds rather than the shared world became a rather unproductive theme for that decade.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But the Walkman changed our relationship with music in a way that&#8217;s so obvious now, but was so revolutionary then. And that&#8217;s worth a moment of pause.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s not a great shock that Sony is discontinuing its Sony Walkman portable audio cassette player (already has, actually&#8230;get &#8217;em while they last). But it&#8217;s a melancholy moment nonetheless. Back in the late &#8217;70s and early &#8217;80s, the Walkman was a glimpse of the mobile and personal relationship with music yet to come. Instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}