One of The Telegraphs Best Music Books 2011 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 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 antiquitymdash;the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism; the Gothic movements invocations of medievalismmdash;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?
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