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

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. Because of Simon Reynolds' book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, which came out earlier this year, it's a good time for nostalgia discourse. 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. Edition of this bestselling text takes a unique approach to the study of mass communication and cultural studies by examining. Are today?s bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? Considered one of the most innovative m.. Esteemed music writer and occasional FACT contributor Simon Reynolds is in the UK this week and next to publicise his new book, Retromania. Dummy magazine's "The 10 Best Modern Music Books": #1. Retromania: pop culture's addiction to its own past – simon reynolds. Maybe so, but it makes for a great night out. Reynolds' latest book – which arrives about a year after his move to Los Angeles – is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past. Retromania the hype about RETROMANIA : Pop Culture ;s Addiction To Its Own Past By Simon Reynolds Dummy magazine ;s "The 10 Best Modern Music Books ": #1. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. I've done a (rather edited) review of Simon Reynolds's new book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past for Oxonian Review (click here to see it). 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 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). Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past [Paperback] . Although Simon Reynold's latest opus came out a few month ago, I have only decided to review it now for two reason. Are today's bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? 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. And in his new book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, Reynolds takes the music business to task, arguing that it has become addicted to endlessly recycling its history.