{"product_id":"retromania-paperback","title":"Retromania - Paperback","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?","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48710126862553,"sku":"9780865479944","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/3121\/5065\/files\/9780865479944.jpg?v=1778796880","url":"https:\/\/www.blacknectarbooks.com\/products\/retromania-paperback","provider":"blacknectar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}