Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Simon Reynolds
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Then Geoff Nunberg discusses the origins of the word A-hole, and how its cultural significance has changed over time. With the obvious exception of ABBA, who this year indulged their reissues addiction with a CD+DVD edition of cult classic The Visitors, there's never been a real appetite for reformed pop groups. Post-digitality, in a 2013 definition, can therefore overlap with what is otherwise called “retro media” or, to quote Simon Reynolds, “Retromania” [9]. So please excuse any self-congratulating you may encounter in the context of this review of Simon Reynold's superb examination of pop culture, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Lastly, Jesse Simon's new book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Retromania: pop culture's addiction to its own past – simon reynolds. Simon Reynolds, author of the new book "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past" speaks to Ethan all the way from LA about the book, new music's throwbacks to the past and the future of pop culture. Although Simon Reynold's latest opus came out a few month ago, I have only decided to review it now for two reason. His new book "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past" attempts to answer a persistent, vexing question: what's up with all the nostalgia? That wave of retromania Simon Reynolds was harping on about last year, where pop culture becomes a slave to its own past, is finally crossing the genre divide from independent music to the mainstream. What Reynolds, from his pop music historian perspective, misses to see in his much-discussed 2011 book on “Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past” is that the contemporary renaissance of vinyl and audio cassettes [10] have different cultural significance than, for example, a Motown or a punk revival. Esteemed music writer and occasional FACT contributor Simon Reynolds is in the UK this week and next to publicise his new book, Retromania. In Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, writer Simon Reynolds asks a difficult but timely question: What happens to pop music when it runs out of ideas to recycle?