{"product_id":"retromania-pop-cultures-addiction-to-its-own-past","title":"Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Simon Reynolds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e''s Best Music Books 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe 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 culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon 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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRetromania\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9780865479944\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Librairie Résonance Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850959159428,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/9801\/1780\/files\/A643E361-6C34-4F6A-BB0D-EDA66BCE0A83.jpg?v=1778603239","url":"https:\/\/librairieresonance.com\/products\/retromania-pop-cultures-addiction-to-its-own-past","provider":"Librairie Résonance Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}