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Item Details
Title:
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RETROMANIA
POP CULTURE'S ADDICTION TO ITS OWN PAST |
By: |
Simon Reynolds |
Format: |
Electronic book text |

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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571271804 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571271801 |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
2 June, 2011 |
Description: |
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. This title examines the retro industry and ask the question: is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own? |
Synopsis: |
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? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity - the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism - never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. "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? |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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