Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds.
Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds.
Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds.
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London ; [New York] : Faber & Faber, c2011.
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N306/279
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English
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Physical content
xxxvi, 458 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The 're' decade ; The retroscape -- Don't look back : nostalgia and retro -- 'Now.' 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 ci...
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Publisher
London ; [New York] : Faber & Faber, c2011.
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2011.
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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 archiv...
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Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds.
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Pop culture's addiction to its own past.
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Originally published: Great Britain : Faber and Faber Ltd., 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-440) and index.
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c2011.
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N306/279
Record Identifier
74VvKRdJ48bM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvKRdJ48bM
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ISBN
0865479941 (pbk.)
9780571232086 (pbk.)
0571232086
9780865479944 (pbk.)
DDC
306
MMS ID
991007787669702626
