Retromania
Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
(Sprache: Englisch)
In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, Simon Reynolds asks: could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is . . . its past?
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In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, Simon Reynolds asks: could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is . . . its past?
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The first book to make sense of 21st century pop, exploring rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes and arguing that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past.Autoren-Porträt von Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984 and, most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Simon Reynolds
- 2012, 458 Seiten, Maße: 12,6 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571232094
- ISBN-13: 9780571232093
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.06.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Retromania “
"Amazing." --Bruce Sterling, Wired.com "Looking back over the last 25 years you'd be hard pressed to name a music journalist more adept at tracking and defining the zeitgeist." --Dave Haslam, "The Guardian"
"Simon Reynolds, one of our most thoughtful music writers, poses a stark question for anyone who cares about the future of pop . . . A devastating critique of the way music is now consumed." --Patrick Sawer, "The Daily Telegraph"
"Bracingly sharp. As a work of contemporary historiography, a thick description of the transformations in our relationship to time--as well as to place--"Retromania" deserves to be very widely read." --Sukhdev Sandhu, "The Observer" (London)
"A provocative and original inquiry into the past and future of popular music." --"Booklist" (starred review)
"[A] mix of canny erudition, critical theory, stylish prose, and vibrant evocations." --"Publishers Weekly"
"Important--and alarming--reading for pop-music aficionados." --"Kirku
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