Retromania

Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

Simon Reynolds

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Key Takeaways from Retromania

✓Since 2000, experimental and mainstream pop music have stopped innovating.
✓Major new pop movements flourished from the 1960s through the 1990s.
✓The 1960s, pop music’s “golden age,” still powerfully shape today’s artists.
✓When young musicians cling to the past, they also abandon innovation.
✓Modern music’s technological obsession has given rise to super-hybrid musicians.

Retromania — Full Chapter Overview

Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Since 2000, experimental and mainstream pop music have stopped innovating.
Chapter 3: Major new pop movements flourished from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Chapter 4: The 1960s, pop music’s “golden age,” still powerfully shape today’s artists.
Chapter 5: When young musicians cling to the past, they also abandon innovation.
Chapter 6: Modern music’s technological obsession has given rise to super-hybrid musicians.
Chapter 7: Post-production now eclipses production – mirroring our post-industrial society.

Retromania Summary & Overview

Retromania (2011) takes a critical look at the state of modern pop music and asks what happened to all the innovative energy behind the pop of the past 50 years. Why hasn’t there been another groundbreaking innovative musical movement like the punk-rock explosion of the 1970s or the hip-hop boom of the 1980s? Find out what’s keeping today’s artists from creating the next great rock ’n’ roll revolution.

Who Should Listen to Retromania?

Music lovers who want to explore the roots of contemporary pop music
Nostalgic flower children who want to revisit the music of their youth
Musicians who want to spark the next revolution in today’s pop culture

About the Author: Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds is a British music critic and journalist. After working for the magazine Melody Maker in the 1980s, he became a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the Guardian and wrote several books on the history of music.

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Retromania — Full Chapter Overview

Chapter 1: Recommendation

Chapter 2: Since 2000, experimental and mainstream pop music have stopped innovating.

Chapter 3: Major new pop movements flourished from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Chapter 4: The 1960s, pop music’s “golden age,” still powerfully shape today’s artists.

Chapter 5: When young musicians cling to the past, they also abandon innovation.

Chapter 6: Modern music’s technological obsession has given rise to super-hybrid musicians.

Chapter 7: Post-production now eclipses production – mirroring our post-industrial society.

Retromania Summary & Overview

Who Should Listen to Retromania?

About the Author: Simon Reynolds

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