Subtitel: Pop culture's addiction to its own past
Auteur: Reynolds, Simon
Jaar: 2012
ISBN: 9780571232093
Pagina's: 496
Taal: English
Uitgever: Faber & Faber
Uitgever stad: Leipzig
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Retromania (paperback)
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“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.