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Retromania: Pop Culture

Retromania: Pop Culture

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past



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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Simon Reynolds ebook
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0865479941, 9780865479944
Page: 500
Format: pdf


Simon Reynolds is still holding lectures on “Retromania”. Then Geoff Nunberg discusses the origins of the word A-hole, and how its cultural significance has changed over time. Larry Austin and Douglas Kahn (University of California Press, 2011, £24.95). Simon Reynolds has written a whole book about the phenomenon, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds (Faber, 2011, £10.99). Lastly, Jesse Simon's new book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. But Reynolds' main thesis is pop culture´s “addiction to its own past”. Even people that don't gravitate toward obvious retro trends have most likely participated. That wave of retromania Simon Reynolds was harping on about last year, where pop culture becomes a slave to its own past, is finally crossing the genre divide from independent music to the mainstream. Simon Reynolds, the author of “Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to It's Own Past,” describes the entertainment content of the past decade as one reeking of unoriginality. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past [Paperback] . Post-Pop: The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its own Past by Simon Reynolds. With the obvious exception of ABBA, who this year indulged their reissues addiction with a CD+DVD edition of cult classic The Visitors, there's never been a real appetite for reformed pop groups. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. A few thoughts about the obsolescence of the future and Simon Reynolds' “Retromania”. Edition of this bestselling text takes a unique approach to the study of mass communication and cultural studies by examining. Popular television shows like ”Gilmore Girls” and “Community” owe their cult-like followings to an audience fluent in the language of established pop culture, Church said. €Who wants yesterday's papers?” sang Mick Jagger in 1967. Simon Reynolds is the author of seven books about music and pop culture, including Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Faber & Faber, 2011) and Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 (Faber & Faber, 2005).

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