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 · Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Retromania.: Simon Reynolds. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, - Music - pages. 4/5(5). Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. By Simon Reynolds. New York: Faber and Faber, [xxxvi, p. ISBN $] Bibliography, index. Simon Reynolds is a prominent journalist of popular music with a substantial record of publication to his name. Retromania, his most recent book, explores one of the. Retromania Quotes Showing of “Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.”. ― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. tags: nostalgia, .

Faber and Faber. In his latest book, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past, veteran music journalist Simon Reynolds doesn't limit his field of inquiry as neatly as he did in. 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? PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Kids today are too besotted with every old thing and a stagnant culture is the result, argues this lively though muddled manifesto. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. by. Simon Reynolds. · Rating details · 2, ratings · reviews. One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 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.

Music critic Simon Reynolds tackles just this question in his book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, released in mid-July. Focusing on music, Reynolds asserts that recycling the. Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point, and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity―the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism―never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. by Simon Reynolds - Weissinger - - Journal of Popular Music Studies - Wiley Online Library. BOOK REVIEWS.