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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Simon Reynolds
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Are today?s bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Keen On… Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (TCTV) TechCrunch. Paper around an office, and attended a talk at the ICA, “Over and Over and Over and Over”, which was essentially a launch for the new book by Simon Reynolds, “Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past”. Maybe so, but it makes for a great night out. Emeralds – Does It Look Like I'm Here? Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from The AV Club and Boing Boing and irreverent original comedy. Simon Reynolds has written a whole book about the phenomenon, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds says that the 2000s have become a time when nostalgia in pop culture, particularly music, has overcome the present. Retromania: Pop culture's addiction to its own past Given all the band reunions, rock biopics, deluxe re-reissues, and whole-album concerts in the past decade, has popular music lost its way? From remakes in film and television to the return of just about everything in fashion, it often seems that way. So please excuse any self-congratulating you may encounter in the context of this review of Simon Reynold's superb examination of pop culture, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Has pop culture's past ever been so abundantly present? Bullseye His new book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past. What song or album is currently in heavy rotation on your iPod? In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds argues that our re-use, recycle, revive attitude to previous decades is stifling creative innovation. What's the last movie that made you cry?