Popular Music and Retro Culture in the Digital Era

This book explores and explains why the trend of "retro culture" is so pervasive in the 21st century, particularly within popular music. Based on empirical case studies and interviews with popular music fans, and in a theoretical approach drawing on a diverse range of thinkers--Karl Mannheim, Jacques Derrida, Raymond Williams, Marshall McLuhan--

Jean Hogarty is an independent scholar currently working at the Economic and Social Research Institute, having previously lectured at NUI Maynooth.

1. There is no now: welcome to the age of retro culture 2. Popular music, youth, and aging 3. Retro culture in the digital era 4. Generation units of retro fans 5. The hauntological structure of feeling 6. Technological determinism and retro culture 7. Back to the future