|
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?
AUTHOR : REYNOLDS, SIMON
BOOK TYPE : NF
DEWEY CLASSIFICATION : 781.64
LANGUAGE : ENGLISH
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NUMBER : 2011459083
NUMBER OF PAGES : 458
PUBLISH DATE : 2011/07/19
PUBLISHER IMPRINT CODE : FABER
PUBLISHER NAME : FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
RETURNS ACCEPTED? : YES
|