{"product_id":"retromania-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e is a music critic whose writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArtforum.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of five previous books, including \u003ci\u003eRip It Up and Start Again.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fsg Adult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646711501074,"sku":"9780865479944","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82c71e11-b142-4cfc-91a9-07e86e95ec42.jpg?v=1733183571","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/retromania-9780865479944","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}