(P/B) RETROMANIA

Παρουσίαση

We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band reformations and reunion tours, revivals and reissues, remakes and mash-ups ... Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival resources of rock history have been exhausted? What happens when we run out of past?
Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have reached a tipping point. Earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity, but never before has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

INTRODUCTION:
The 'Re' Decade / The Retroscape
PROLOGUE:
Don't Look Back: Nostalgia and Retro
PART ONE: 'NOW'
1. POP WILL REPEAT ITSELF: Museums, Reunions, Rock Docs, Re-enactments
2. TOTAL RECALL: Music and Memory in the Time of YouTube
3. LOST IN THE SHUFFLE: Record Collecting and the Twilight of Music as an Object
4. GOOD CITATIONS: The Rise of the Rock Curator
5. TURNING JAPANESE: The Empire of Retro and the Hipster International
PART TWO: 'THEN'
6. STRANGE CHANGES: Fashion, Retro and Vintage
7. TURN BACK TIME: Revival Cults and Time-Warp Tribes
8. NO FUTURE: Punk's Reactionary Roots and Retro Aftermath
9. ROCK ON (AND ON) (AND ON): The Never - Ending Fifties Revival
PART THREE: 'TOMORROW'
10. GHOST OF FUTURES PAST: Sampling, Hauntology and Mash-Up
11. OUT OF SPACE: Nostalgia for Giant Steps and Final Frontiers
12. THE SHOCK OF THE OLD: Past, Present and Future in The First Decade of the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index