A good book, a little too descriptive.

Simon Reynolds begins with a list of symptoms of the highly successful Rétromania museums on the rock, festival organizations in line-ups ultra retro, old styles recovery by existing groups, etc ... That extends to history music: he then shows that the Rétromania also existed in the past (rock history is replete with repetitions for example). Then he attempts to give some possible developments of this Rétromania in the future.
It's convincing but a little disappointing as Reynolds has trouble beyond description. The root causes of Rétromania are addressed that over the symptoms enumerations ... As for the analysis itself, it seems a bit pessimistic.