We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. This book examines the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?
Author Biography
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 and, most recently, Bring The Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.
