One of "The Telegraph"'s Best Music Books 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?
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