Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own PastMore than ever before we're leeching off the past, especially the recent past also in the music culture. Maybe once it was possible to believe that culture and society have some kind of evolutionary destiny, moving ever onwards to a more exciting future. But now hipsters appear to dream of generations past. And what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? The author wonders, why the younger generations aren't tearing down what's gone before and making their own kind of new music. Bespreking door David Kleijwegt in Vrij Nederland. 72(2011)32(13aug. 62-65) en NRC Handelsblad, 16-9-2011. |
