Retromania pop culture's addiction to its own past
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Faber and Faber
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 431 - 440 |
| Beschreibung: | XXXVI, 458 S. |
| ISBN: | 0865479941 0-86547-994-1 0571232086 0-571-23208-6 9780571232093 978-0-571-23209-3 9780865479944 978-0-86547-994-4 9780571232086 978-0-571-23208-6 |