Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Faber & Faber, 2011.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
ISBN
9780865479944, 0865479941
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 458 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction
781.64 REY
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781.64 REY
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Published
New York : Faber & Faber, 2011.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780865479944, 0865479941
Notes
General Note
Originally published: Great Britain : Faber and Faber Ltd., 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-440) and index.
Description
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?
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Reynolds, S. (2011). Retromania: pop culture's addiction to its own past (First American edition.). Faber & Faber.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Reynolds, Simon, 1963-. 2011. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Faber & Faber.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Reynolds, Simon, 1963-. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Faber & Faber, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Reynolds, Simon. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past First American edition., Faber & Faber, 2011.
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