{"product_id":"retromania-simon-reynolds-9780865479944","title":"Retromania","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Music Books 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimon 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. \u003ci\u003eRetromania \u003c\/i\u003eis 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0865479941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865479944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.69w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/22\/2011 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/14\/2011 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/19\/2011","brand":"Simon Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045207240959,"sku":"9780865479944","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de96c1b1-96fe-44b1-ae83-68a828cd2788.jpg?v=1684977373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/retromania-simon-reynolds-9780865479944","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}