Retromania: Pop Culture´s Addiction To Its Own Past

Retromania: Pop Culture´s Addiction To Its Own Past
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Rep-lo a casa en 2 / 3 dies per Missatger o Eco Enviament*Sobre el libro Retromania: Pop Culture´s Addiction To Its Own Past de Simon Reynolds publicado por Faber & Faber al 2011:
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 culturalecological 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?
