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Read [Simon Reynolds Book] * Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Fantastic look at the empty nostalgia dominating music today Algernop Krieger I’ll start by getting the parts that might turn some people off, but this book is well worth getting past these points. First, the book is mostly about music, not all possible variations on the retro theme. There is some stuff on other retro trends, but music dominates the vast majority of the book. Second, the author’s treatment is academic and occasionally a bit too verbose. He could have trimmed some sec
| Title | : | Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865479941 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. 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?. 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 culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? 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 antiquitythe Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalismnever has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past
Simon Reynolds is a music critic whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Artforum. He is the author of five previous books, including Rip It Up and Start Again.
Fantastic look at the empty nostalgia dominating music today Algernop Krieger I’ll start by getting the parts that might turn some people off, but this book is well worth getting past these points. First, the book is mostly about music, not all possible variations on the retro theme. There is some stuff on other retro trends, but music dominates the vast majority of the book. Second, the author’s treatment is academic and occasionally a bit too verbose. He could have trimmed some sections and not lost a bit of impact.Having those things out of the way, the fascinating topic and the quality of the analysis makes this book ju. For my money he’s one of the most intelligent music writers in the last two decades” — DJ Music critic Simon Reynolds is perhaps best-known for his coining of the term, “post-rock.” He is also regarded for his incorporation of critical theory in his analysis of music. His 2011 book, Retromania was my first encounter with his writing. “I recently read Simon Reynolds’ Retromania and it was so spot-on as far as our current attitude to music and its history. For my money he’s one of the most intelligent music writers in the last two decades” — DJ FoodRetromania turned out to be much more than a critical examin. "Redundant" according to Derek. Got repetitive real fast. Summary: Today's pop culture gets all of its styles from past generations; today's pop culture has no soul nor style of its own. The end.
You may struggle with the suspicion that you've seen it all before and heard it all before--but you've never read anything that approaches the idea of retro from as many entertaining and incisive angles. Reynolds brings profound knowledge and oceanic depth and width to his argument, tracing his theme from trad jazz through the '70s rock and roll boom to the hipsterism of today, via the hyper-connectedness and infinite jukebox of the web. The present may be collapsing into the past, but this is a book
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