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Constructed Nostalgia for Rock’s Golden Age
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neo-nostalgia (Jameson) and similar postmodern terms
are the structural determinants. Neo-nostalgia for
homesickness). Nostalgia for a construction, fabricated for
memory / nostalgia / retro, music / recording industry, mainstream
Constructed Nostalgia
Commodification of Nostalgia
it used to be while nostalgia, especially
nostalgia about rock music, has changed
cultural nostalgia. Both nostalgia and rock have had their
The relationship between nostalgia and rock has flipped – originally
nostalgia was often influenced by rock
by nostalgia’s new incarnation. The following
conjunction of rock and nostalgia in terms of a general
Constructed Nostalgia
underlined. On the other hand, nostalgia is something
The oldest form of nostalgia, first documented in those who
and bitter feeling that characterizes nostalgia
the 17^th century, such nostalgia was understood
pre-industrial denotation of nostalgia as a desire to return
for some, the object of nostalgia is a place, but, less
95). Rousseau and Kant comprehend nostalgia as it
14The third incarnation of nostalgia is the meaning that characterizes
over its present. Whereas originary nostalgia was directed toward a
modern nostalgia refers to an individualized experienced
no longer be recovered, contemporary nostalgia is a construct of the
nostalgia
15Contemporary nostalgia is neither for everyone’s
construction. It is constructed nostalgia that the students who would
contemporary nostalgia is self-referential: the individual
Frederic Jameson’s discussion of nostalgia in
Jameson’s notion of “neo-nostalgia” as
process of selection and simplification, nostalgia
17Aestheticized nostalgia for past rock lacks seriousness
similar to originary nostalgia), but also as the survival
That aestheticized nostalgia should have come to be
Commodification of Nostalgia
neo-nostalgia? There are two major structural
constructed nostalgia. The major one is economic
would instigate neo-nostalgia
s past that breeds neo-nostalgia. These hypesters of the canon
nostalgia-inducing imaginary. The innumerable TV
franchises. These simulations foster neo-nostalgia
game that also commodifies nostalgia” (Hodson, 2012: 81
37For Jameson, neo-nostalgia is a matter of substituting
time in the past. Neo-nostalgia takes that
second structural foundation for constructed nostalgia
sign”, creating a sense of nostalgia, in
the last generation before neo-nostalgia buried new musical
is bound up with neo-nostalgia
51 Neo-nostalgia — Frederic Jameson’s precise contribution
neo)nostalgia
53Neo-nostalgia for rock’s past is
Commodification of Nostalgia”, Loading… The Journal of the
J. (1688), Dissertatio Medica de Nostalgia, Bâle, J. Bertsch
E. (2006), “The Modalities of Nostalgia
J. (1966), “The Idea of Nostalgia”, trans. W.S. Kemp
Deena Weinstein, « Constructed Nostalgia for Rock’s Golden Age
Deena Weinstein, « Constructed Nostalgia for Rock’s Golden Age