Retromania - Simon Reynolds

Retromania

Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past

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Buch | Softcover
496 Seiten
2012 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-23209-3 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
Intends to make sense of 21st Century pop. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, this title confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday.
The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday.We live in the digital future but we're mesmerized by our analogue past.

Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 and, most recently, Bring The Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 200 mm
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-571-23209-4 / 0571232094
ISBN-13 978-0-571-23209-3 / 9780571232093
Zustand Neuware
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