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Introduction: Is Pop Culture trapped in the past?

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In 2011, music critic Simon Reynolds's essay Retromania came out, the main argument of which was that “We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. […] Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is … its past?” (Reynolds: ix). Reynolds’s focus was on pop music at the turn of the new millennium, questioning the role of its producers and the tastes of its audience, stuck in a state of “hyper-stasis” (Reynolds, ibid.). More than one decade after Reynolds’s thought-provoking analysis, one may wonder whether this assumption is still relevant today. Can it be extended to other objects of pop culture?
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hal-04681883 , version 1 (30-08-2024)

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Yannick Bellenger-Morvan. Introduction: Is Pop Culture trapped in the past?. Imaginaires, 2024, Retrophilia, Nostalgia and the End of Pop Culture (26), pp.7-10. ⟨10.34929/imaginaires.vi26.51⟩. ⟨hal-04681883⟩
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