Retromania

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? Simon Reynolds, One Of The Finest Music Writers Of His Generation, Argues That We Have Indeed Reached A Tipping Point And That Although Earlier Eras Had Their Own Obsessions With Antiquity - The Renaissance With Its Admiration For Roman And Greek Classicism, The Gothic Movement's Invocations Of Medievalism - Never Has There Been A Society So Obsessed With The Cultural Artifacts Of Its Own Immediate Past. 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?