Retromania

by Simon Reynolds

Book Overview

One of The Telegraph's 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?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865479941
• ISBN13: 9780865479944
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"