Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past - Softcover

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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"

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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?

Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity - the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism - never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past.

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?