Retromania
pop culture's addiction to its own past
1st American ed.
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Word Count
114,500 words, Guess
Page Count
458 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveretromaniapopcul00reyn
- ISBN-139780571232086
- ISBN-100571232086
- ISBN-100865479941
- ISBN-139780865479944
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2011459083
- OCLC Control Number732968856
- Open LibraryOL25014682M
Classifications
- LCCML3534 R4915 2011
Alternate Titles
- Pop culture's addiction to its own past
Description
We 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 cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? 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?
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