Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds.
By: Reynolds, Simon
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BookPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2011Description: xxxvi, 458 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780571232086.Subject(s): Popular music -- History and criticism | Music -- Social aspects | Popular culture -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 781.64 Summary: We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ... But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?
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| 780.92 CAG Conversing with Cage / | 781.11 Music and the mind / | 781.63 The Faber book of pop / | 781.64 Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / | 781.65136 Two full ears : listening to improvised music / | 781.66 Rock dreams / | 781.66 Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is . its past?
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-440) and index.
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ... But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?