Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Simon Reynolds
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Are today?s bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? In his new book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past (Faber and Faber 2011), Simon Reynolds argues that we have reached a tipping point. Has pop culture's past ever been so abundantly present? Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past [Paperback] . This retromanic character has been the subject of endless conversation since the publication of Simon Reynolds' most recent book. Edition of this bestselling text takes a unique approach to the study of mass communication and cultural studies by examining. From remakes in film and television to the return of just about everything in fashion, it often seems that way. Retromania: Pop culture's addiction to its own past Given all the band reunions, rock biopics, deluxe re-reissues, and whole-album concerts in the past decade, has popular music lost its way? Bullseye His new book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past. Music critic Simon Reynolds joins us to talk the loop of re-creating old sounds, and more. His new book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds (Faber & Faber). But at the same time, I discovered Simon Reynold's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Is cultural innovation at risk when we indulge in retromania? Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from The AV Club and Boing Boing and irreverent original comedy. 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 the hype about RETROMANIA : Pop Culture ;s Addiction To Its Own Past By Simon Reynolds Dummy magazine ;s "The 10 Best Modern Music Books ": #1.