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Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3534 R4915 2011
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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3534 R4915 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Simon, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Popular culture--History.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 458 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Other Title:
- Pop culture's addiction to its own past
- Place of Publication:
- London ; [New York] : Faber & Faber, [2011]
- Summary:
- 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? 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?
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-440) and index.
- ISBN:
- 978865479942
- 9780571232086
- 0571232086
- 9780865479944
- 0865479941
- OCLC:
- 732968856
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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