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

That wave of retromania Simon Reynolds was harping on about last year, where pop culture becomes a slave to its own past, is finally crossing the genre divide from independent music to the mainstream. Are today's bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? Keen On… Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (TCTV) simonreynolds. €�Who wants yesterday's papers?” sang Mick Jagger in 1967. With the obvious exception of ABBA, who this year indulged their reissues addiction with a CD+DVD edition of cult classic The Visitors, there's never been a real appetite for reformed pop groups. Simon Reynolds, author of the new book "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past" speaks to Ethan all the way from LA about the book, new music's throwbacks to the past and the future of pop culture. From remakes in film and television to the return of just about everything in fashion, it often seems that way. Are today?s bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. So why is it that retro camera apps have come to dominate popular photography in the second decade of the twenty-first century? Has pop culture's past ever been so abundantly present? Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past.