Retromania
Subtitle: pop culture's addiction to its own past
By: Simon Reynolds
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780571232086; 9780865479944
Subjects: Popular music; Music; Social aspects; Popular culture; History and criticism; History
Other titles: Pop culture's addiction to its own past
Description: 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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-440) and index.