Carl’s Rock Songbook #49: Simon Reynolds, Retromania

by Carl Scott

As a book on pop-music, Simon Reynolds’ Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past earns a high B, but does not rate among my very favorites, being too beholden to Rock attitudes, and too long-winded for its own good. Some of its detail is welcome—I found Reynold’s . . . . Continue Reading »

7 Jun 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #14: Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock n’ Roll Grad School

by Carl Scott

. . . the rock and roll apparatus affectively organizes the everyday life of its fans by differentially cathecting the various fragments it “excorporates” along these three axes. . . . It involves vectors (quantities having both magnitude and direction) that are removed from the hegemonic . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Aug 2011