The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, "Retromania" explores rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday. We live in the digital future but we're mesmerized by our analogue past.
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The first book to make sense of 21st century pop, exploring rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes and arguing that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past.
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Biografie
Simon Reynolds, 1963 in London geboren, war von 1986 bis 1990 Redakteur der englischen Musikzeitschrift Melody Maker. Ein Buch mit seinen Texten aus jener Zeit erschien 1990 unter dem Titel "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock". Seit 1994 lebt Reynolds im East Village in Manhattan. Er schreibt für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie New York Times, Village Voice, Spin, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Observer, Artforum, The Wire und Uncut. 1995 erschien das Buch "The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion & RocknRoll", das er zusammen mit seiner Frau Joy Press schrieb; 1998 folgte "Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture in America". Seit Ende 2002 betreibt Reynolds im Internet sein Blissblog.
