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  Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Paperback) By (author) Simon Reynolds

  

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  Short Description for RetromaniaIntends to make sense of 21st Century pop. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, this title confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 01 February 2012
  • Format: Paperback 496 pages
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  • Categories: Music Reviews & Criticism | Rock & Pop Music | Popular Culture | Social & Cultural Anthropology
  • ISBN 13: 9780571232093 ISBN 10: 0571232094
  • Sales rank: 21,538

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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 often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday. We live in the digital future but we're mesmerized by our analogue past.