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

Larry Austin and Douglas Kahn (University of California Press, 2011, £24.95). The obsession with pop's recent past is the subject of Simon Reynolds' current book, Retromania. Simon Reynolds has written a whole book about the phenomenon, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Simon Reynolds, -”Retromania: Pop culture's addiction to its own past”-, a must to follow in case you have never heard of him. In his new book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past (Faber and Faber 2011), Simon Reynolds argues that we have reached a tipping point. The New Republic is running my review of Simon Reynolds's new book, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove? Retromania-Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynold. It (the review) begins like this: “Who wants yesterday's papers?” sang Mick Jagger in 1967. In his latest book 'Retromania; Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past', the music critic Simon Reynolds argues that pop culture in general has become obsessed with recycling from history. (Faber and Faber) (GUEST REVIEW by THE RENEGADE TIME LORD [as told to THE SOUL REBEL]). Post-digitality, in a 2013 definition, can therefore overlap with what is otherwise called “retro media” or, to quote Simon Reynolds, “Retromania” [9]. C95102gqhbom72oxv “Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past, Simon Reynolds (Faber, 2011, £10.99). Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, by Simon Reynolds, is published by Faber & Faber. In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, writer Simon Reynolds asks a difficult but timely question: What happens to pop music when it runs out of ideas to recycle? What Reynolds, from his pop music historian perspective, misses to see in his much-discussed 2011 book on “Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past” is that the contemporary renaissance of vinyl and audio cassettes [10] have different cultural significance than, for example, a Motown or a punk revival.