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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Reynolds, Simon, 1963- Retromania. (DLC) 2011459083 (OCoLC)732968856 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Reynolds |
ISBN: | 9781429968584 1429968583 |
OCLC Number: | 861601602 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 458 pages) |
Contents: | Pop will repeat itself: museums, reunions, rock docs, re-enactments -- Total recall: music and memory in the time of YouTube -- Lost in the shuffle: record collecting and the twilight of music as an object -- Good citations: the rise of the rock curator -- Turning Japanese: the empire of retro and the hipster international -- Strange changes: fashion, retro and vintage -- Turn back time: revival cults and time-warp tribes -- No future: punk's reactionary roots and retro aftermath -- Rock on (and on) (and on): the never-ending fifties revival -- Ghosts of futures past: sampling, hauntology and mash-ups -- Out of space: nostalgia for giant steps and final frontiers -- The retroscape (slight return) -- The shock of the old: past, present and future in the first decade of the twenty-first century. |
Other Titles: | Pop culture's addiction to its own past |
Responsibility: | Simon Reynolds. |
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Abstract:
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. This book examines 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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"If I had to choose just one commentator to guide me through the last quarter-century of popular (and not so popular) music, it would have to be-on the basis of knowledge, range of reference, soundness of judgment, and fluency of style-Simon Reynolds." -GEOFF DYER, author of "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" Read more...
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