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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Simon Reynolds ebook
ISBN: 0865479941, 9780865479944
Page: 500
Format: pdf
Publisher: Faber & Faber

I haven't read it but it's about “pop culture's addiction to it's own past.” Indeed, most new pop music does seem awfully familiar. Retromania is the title of a new book by Simon Reynolds. One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Has pop culture's past ever been so abundantly present? We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. We are witnessing what Reynolds and others have called the 'museum-ification' of rock. What Reynolds, from his pop music historian perspective, misses to see in his much-discussed 2011 book on “Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past” is that the contemporary renaissance of vinyl and audio cassettes [10] have different cultural significance than, for example, a Motown or a punk revival. Post-digitality, in a 2013 definition, can therefore overlap with what is otherwise called “retro media” or, to quote Simon Reynolds, “Retromania” [9]. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, is more than just an exploration of the way rock's past has become an obsession. From remakes in film and television to the return of just about everything in fashion, it often seems that way.