Friday, June 17, 2011

This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This

"We are witnessing what Reynolds and others call the 'museum-ification' of rock. Retromania is more than just an exploration of the way rock’s past has become an obsession. It is also a devastating critique of the way music is now consumed and how the digital technology by which it is delivered mitigates against anything but the most superficial appreciation."

Patrick Sawer in The Telegraph reviews Simon Reynolds's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past.

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