Simon Reynolds, Retromania and the Atemporality of Contemporary 'Pop' If you've read Retromania, then you really must read this. And if you haven't but have even the slightest interest in art criticism, you really should read both. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2118376 http://retromaniabysimonreynolds.blogspot.co.uk via http://www.scoop.it/t/hauntology "Yes, we could talk about the tyranny of generalization if we wanted to: we could point out that no sounds are without a history, that retromania is to some extent a necessary and permanent condition, that we have, in a certain manner of speaking, always been postmodern and that in this sense there is nothing intrinsically novel about the contemporary predicament. And every step of the way Reynolds would agree with us. Despite the rampant and sometimes dewy-eyed modernism with which he has pursued virtually his entire career, he is certainly no fool. Every step of the way, in other words, his provocation would still stand. Yes, I take your point, he would say, but still ... can we really not do better?" Simon Reynolds, Retromania and the Atemporality of Contemporary 'Pop' by James Parker :: SSRN » One book dominated music criticism in 2011. A virtuoso work of both musical and cultural history, a strangely personal memoir of a life dedicated to pop and its [from: Google+ Posts] |
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