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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
Page: 500
ISBN: 0865479941, 9780865479944
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: pdf

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove? Writer Simon Reynolds embraces the past in his new book, “Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past.” The Victorian's were known for their copies of earlier furniture styles: Gothic, Roccoco, Baroque. Simon Reynolds' Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past is that rare thing, a brainy joyride. Music critic Simon Reynolds joins us to talk the loop of re-creating old sounds, and more. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. Simon Reynolds has written a whole book about the phenomenon, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. €�Who wants yesterday's papers?” sang Mick Jagger in 1967. His new book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past. 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. Simon Reynolds – 'Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past'. Retromania by Simon Reynolds Faber & Faber, 496 pp., $18.00. Excuse me for giving away the ending, but here is Retromania's final sentence: I still believe the future is out there. 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. Is cultural innovation at risk when we indulge in retromania?