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RETROMANIA - THE FOOTNOTES, THE AFTERTHOUGHTS. DISSENTING VOICES DEBUNKED.
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
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I've now added a bunch of bonus materi al to the footnotes -- FAQ, unFAQ, RetroQuotes, articles pegged to or related to the book, interviews with the author, a selection of reviews , sections for articles and blog entries that pre-echoed the book's concer ns. Here's the revised table of contents. RETROMANIA FOOTNOTES: TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: THE RE DECADE / THE RETROSCAPE Prologue DON'T…
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Update: footnotes now finished. I'll be sporadically adding bits and bobs - illustrations, video, links, related articles, FAQ / unFAQ - but the basic architecture is complete i.e. everything that was cut out of the first monstrously large draft plus stuff that I've come across or thought up subsequently that relates to the book's themes. The previous post contains the index with links to the…
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RETROMANIA FOOTNOTES: TABLE OF CONTENTS with Direct Links click on the links to go directly to the footnotes for that chapter Introduction: THE RE DECADE / THE RETROSCAPE Prologue DON'T LOOK BACK: Nostalgia and Retro Chapter 1: POP WILL REPEAT ITSELF: Museums,Reunions, Rockdocs, Reenactments Chapter 2: TOTAL RECALL: Musicand Memory in the Time of YouTube Chapter 3: LOST IN THE SHUFFLE: Record…
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FOOTNOTES to Introduction : THE RE DECADE / THE RETROSCAPE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ running out of past? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE A sign of Retro's cultural pervasiveness is the fact that the very word has become unhinged from the domain of entertainment/design/fashion and drifted loose as a freefloating buzzword, used to describe anything old-fashioned or…
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FOOTNOTES for Prologue: DON'T LOOK BACK: Nostalgia and Retro ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE How humans have thought of the past (and the present and future) has varied hugely between epochs and across cultures, of course; conceptions of History and Change have changed through history. There's an immense literature on Time that encompasses philosophy, psychology,…
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Chapter 1: POP WILL REPEAT ITSELF: Museums, Reunions, Rockdocs, Reenactments ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ my anti-music-museum hang-up "But hang on a minute, Reynolds", I hear you protest, "you write histories, don't you? Big slabs of text about the rock past. Aren't you in the exact same business as the museums?" Maybe. I don't think so, though. Fiction workshops always instruct wannabe writers to "show, not…
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Chapter 2: TOTAL RECALL: Music and Memory in the Time of YouTube ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ on the relative inaccessibility -- out of reachness - of the pop past when i was growing up Along with records being out of print and deleted by record companies, other factors include: radio, as I recall, would drop only the occasional golden oldie amidst playlists almost completely dedicated to current releases,…
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Chapter 3: LOST IN THE SHUFFLE: Record Collecting and the Twilight of Music as an Object ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "what will happen to my records after I'm dead?" Cherrystones's Gareth Goddard, who owns around six thousand LPs and 2500 singles, told me he rarely thinks about death as a fate that will inevitably befall him but does "get worried about whose hands my [collecting] efforts could fall into.…
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Chapter 4: GOOD CITATIONS: The Rise of the Curator in Rock ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "curation"'s drift into music-world discourse Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE A perfect example just popped into my inbox: a publicity email for a Brooklyn techno club that starts "When The Treehouse was first raised, the guest DJ curation (outside residents) was always meant to be fluid…" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^…
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Chapter 5: TURNING JAPANESE: The Empire of Retro and the Hipster Internationale ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Japanese retro-hipsterism Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Although bands as divergent as Pizzicato Five and the Boredoms had brushed against my consciousness over the years, I first noticed the peculiar Japanese affinity for retro when I started going to a Manhattan club called Body &…