Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past Simon Reynolds ebook
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0865479941, 9780865479944
Format: pdf
Page: 500

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