Retromania | Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past

by Simon Reynolds
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9780571232093

Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 496
Published: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Faber
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 20.0 x 13.0  x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.39
Edition Number: 1

Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is. its past?

The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday. We live in the digital future but we're mesmerized by our analogue past.

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