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

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its own Past Simon Reynolds Faber and Faber 2011. 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. Retromania is the title of a new book by Simon Reynolds. Today I started reading Retromania: Pop culture's addiction to its own past. Simon Reynolds reflects on the current mania for nostalgia. I haven't read it but it's about “pop culture's addiction to it's own past.” Indeed, most new pop music does seem awfully familiar. Although Simon Reynold's latest opus came out a few month ago, I have only decided to review it now for two reason. 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. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds review. 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). In Paul Reynolds categorisation of the past my Doors would be an antiquity, their value would be as a historical reference. Retromania: pop culture's addiction to its own past – simon reynolds. Post-Pop: The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its own Past by Simon Reynolds. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Considered one of the most innovative m.. So why is it that retro camera apps have come to dominate popular photography in the second decade of the twenty-first century? Are today's bands simply recycling the past to produce music without any originality? 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. The title says it all – pop culture has increasingly cannibalised itself until innovation has become stifled.