The purpose of this publication is to question and re-evaluate Simon Reynold’s 2011 assumption 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?” 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? In the Post-pandemic age, is pop culture still fixated on its (and our) past? Is this “addiction” to the past a regressive trend or, on the contrary, an opportunity to reassess modern history and re-evaluate its legacy and its representation in popular mass media? In terms of forms and formats, can something “radically new” emerge from nostalgia?

Issue edited by Yannick Bellenger-Morvan

Reviewing Comittee:

Claire Dutriaux – Sorbonne Université
Marine Galiné – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Catherine Girodet – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Xavier Giudicelli – Université Paris-Nanterre
Laura Goudet – Université de Rouen
Elsa Grassy – Université de Strasbourg
Vincent Jaunas – Université de Saint-Etienne
Pauline Macadré – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Sébastien Mignot – Université de Caen
Sylvie Mikowski– Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Stéphane Partel – Université des Antilles