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Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds

Author
Reynolds, Simon, 1963-
Additional Titles
Pop culture's addiction to its own past
Published
London ; [New York] : Faber & Faber, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Edition
[1st American ed.].
Physical Description
xxxvi, 458 pages ; 24 cm

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ML3534R4915 2011 HM621.R49 2011
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Contents
Pop will repeat itself: museums, reunions, rock docs, re-enactments -- Total recall: music and memory in the time of YouTube -- Lost in the shuffle: record collecting and the twilight of music as an object -- Good citations: the rise of the rock curator -- Turning Japanese: the empire of retro and the hipster international -- Strange changes: fashion, retro and vintage -- Turn back time: revival cults and time-warp tribes -- No future: punk's reactionary roots and retro aftermath -- Rock on (and on) (and on): the never-ending fifties revival -- Ghosts of futures past: sampling, hauntology and mash-ups -- Out of space: nostalgia for giant steps and final frontiers -- The retroscape (slight return) -- The shock of the old: past, present and future in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Summary
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? 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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ISBN
9780571232086 (pbk.)
0571232086
9780865479944 (pbk.)
0865479941 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-440) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Dubois copy: Purchased with funds from the Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library; 2011.
Endowment Note
Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library
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