{"product_id":"retromania-pop-cultures-addiction-to-its-own-past-0865479941","title":"Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0865479941\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reynolds, Simon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011We 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?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 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. 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181624291616,"sku":"NEW0865479941","price":35.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71jtX30CqzL.jpg?v=1786597211","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/retromania-pop-cultures-addiction-to-its-own-past-0865479941","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}