Chapter 1: Cultural roots vs. cultural routes

Retromania assignment

According to Simon Reynolds, our current culture is more obsessed with its own immediate cultural past than any period before.

• Please watch the following clip and describe or link to some other examples of "retromania." This can be an example of music, film, or any other art form you like: https://bit.ly/1T3pBFV. Explain how your examples relate to the past.
• Then try to answer the following question: how is culture impacted by either the extension of existing cultural roots (origins) or by the experience of moving through different routes?

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