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Retromania - Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past (Paperback, Main) Loot Price: R444
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Retromania - Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past (Paperback, Main)

Simon Reynolds

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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.

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Imprint: Faber and Faber
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2011
First published: 2012
Authors: Simon Reynolds
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 458
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23209-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
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LSN: 0-571-23209-4
Barcode: 9780571232093

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