Retromania Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

Name: Retromania Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
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ISBN: 9780865479944

ISBN-10: 0865479941

ISBN-13: 9780865479944

Edition: 2011

Authors: Simon Reynolds

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 7/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.66" wide x 8.20" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction: The 'Re' Decade/the Retroscape


Prologue: Don't Look Back: Nostalgia and Retro



'Now'



Pop Will Repeat Itself: Museums, Reunions, Rock Docs, Re-Enactments



Total Recall: Music and Memory in the Time of Youtube



Lost in the Shuffle: Record Collecting and the Twilight of Music as an Object



Good Citations: The Rise of the Rock Curator



Turning Japanese: The Empire of Retro and the Hipster International



'Then'



Strange Changes: Fashion, Retro and Vintage



Turn Back Time: Revival Cults and Time-Warp Tribes



No Future: Punk's Reactionary Roots and Retro Aftermath



Rock on (and on) (and on): The Never-Ending Fifties Revival



'Tomorrow'



Ghosts of Futures Past: Sampling, Hauntology and Mash-Ups



Out of Space: Nostalgia for Giant Steps and Final Frontiers


The Retroscape (Slight Return) 399



The Shock of the old: Past, Present and Future in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century


Acknowledgements


Bibliography


Index