Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Paperback)
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Short Description for Retromania Intends to make sense of 21st Century pop. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, this title 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.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 01 February 2012
- Format: Paperback 496 pages
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- Categories: Music Reviews & Criticism | Rock & Pop Music | Popular Culture | Social & Cultural Anthropology
- ISBN 13: 9780571232093 ISBN 10: 0571232094
- Sales rank: 32,645
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Full description for Retromania
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.
