We have a portable CD and cassette player in our collection. Boomboxes are transistorised, portable music players with cassettes, radio, an amplifier, integrated speakers, and a handle for carrying.
From the 1990s, CD players were often included. Many of them allowed recording from the radio and CDs, leading to many teenagers in the 1990s making mix tapes for their friends.
In the US, the boombox became closely linked to American hip hop culture and was very important in the rise of hip hop music.