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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
Format: pdf
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Page: 500

Retromania: Pop culture's addiction to its own past Given all the band reunions, rock biopics, deluxe re-reissues, and whole-album concerts in the past decade, has popular music lost its way? Post-Pop: The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its own Past by Simon Reynolds. Esteemed music writer and occasional FACT contributor Simon Reynolds is in the UK this week and next to publicise his new book, Retromania. Simon Reynolds has written a whole book about the phenomenon, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Location: USA, One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy. A few thoughts about the obsolescence of the future and Simon Reynolds' “Retromania”. €�Who wants yesterday's papers?” sang Mick Jagger in 1967. Dummy magazine's "The 10 Best Modern Music Books": #1. Buy Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past from [url removed]! Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. Today I started reading Retromania: Pop culture's addiction to its own past. But Reynolds' main thesis is pop culture´s “addiction to its own past”. Simon Reynolds is still holding lectures on “Retromania”. The title says it all – pop culture has increasingly cannibalised itself until innovation has become stifled. In his latest book 'Retromania; Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past', the music critic Simon Reynolds argues that pop culture in general has become obsessed with recycling from history.