Retromania, Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds Date Published 05.01.2012

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Retromania, Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds - This landmark book explores pop culture's obsession with revivals, reissues, reunions, and remakes.

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The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rock’s nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we’re empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too...

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