Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past - Softcover

Reynolds, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571232086 ISBN 13: 9780571232086

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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?

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Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984 and, most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571232086
• ISBN 13: 9780571232086
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar