Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Simon Reynolds ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 500
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0865479941, 9780865479944

It's obvious: AUTECHRE are into Retromania as it is described by Simon Reynolds in the most-talked about book about music in 2011 – 'Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past'. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds (Faber, 2011, £10.99). Has pop culture's past ever been so abundantly present? In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, writer Simon Reynolds asks a difficult but timely question: What happens to pop music when it runs out of ideas to recycle? Are today?s bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. From remakes in film and television to the return of just about everything in fashion, it often seems that way. Larry Austin and Douglas Kahn (University of California Press, 2011, £24.95). Maybe so, but it makes for a great night out. CyberRock The card above tells the story. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011. The title says it all – pop culture has increasingly cannibalised itself until innovation has become stifled. Today I started reading Retromania: Pop culture's addiction to its own past. In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds argues that our re-use, recycle, revive attitude to previous decades is stifling creative innovation. Here's the quick version: “Confronting Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past” with Bruce Sterling and Simon Reynolds.