Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Nebraska From the New York Times

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Nothin’ But A Good Time

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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Nebraska From the New York TimesAuthor: Simon Reynolds One of The Telegraph''s Best Music Books 2011 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 culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been