Quite a weighty tome – over 400 pages in paperback – looking at music’s love of the past; revering, recycling, repurposing musical styles and genres across the decades. Particularly fascinating when you get to chapters about times and tunes you remember.
Author’s website: Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past – Simons Reynolds
Review: Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review: Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove?, Sukhdev Sandhu, The Observer’s, 29 May 2011