Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; [New York] :
Faber & Faber,
[2011]
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| Edition: | [1st American ed.]. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Sample text |
| 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 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? |
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| Physical Description: | xxxvi, 458 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-440) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780571232086 (pbk.) 0571232086 9780865479944 (pbk.) 0865479941 (pbk.) |