ISBN:
0865479941
,
0571232086
,
9780571232093
,
9780865479944
,
9780571232086
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXVI, 458 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
781.64
Keywords:
Popular music History and criticism
;
Music Social aspects
;
Popular culture History
;
Popkultur
Abstract:
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?
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 431 - 440
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