RETROMANIA: POP CULTURES ADDICTION TO ITS OWN PAST (PB)

Retromania explores rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together threads from music, fashion, art and new media, Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we're empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it's used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday.