{"id":1537,"date":"2016-05-12T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:41:43","slug":"hu-professors-research-influence-retromania-published-scisa-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/hu-professors-research-influence-retromania-published-scisa-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"HU Professor\u2019s Research on Influence of Retromania to be published in SCiSA Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent faculty member <a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/AHSS\/dr-markus-heidingsfelder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder<\/a>, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/academics\/ahss\/comm-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Communication Studies and Design<\/a> (CSD) program at Habib University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/academics\/ahss\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a> (AHSS), reached another academic milestone as his research article titled, <strong><em>\u2018Retrology: Addicted to the Future\u2019<\/em><\/strong> has been selected to feature in the next issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sagepub.in\/journals\/Journal202254\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Society And Culture in South Asia<\/em><\/a> (<em>SCiSA).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his research article, Dr. Heidingsfelder investigates the influence of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2011\/may\/27\/retromania-pop-culture-simon-reynolds-review\" target=\"_blank\">retromania<\/a>\u2019 on pop music, and whether the induction of the former will result in the demise of the latter. Dr. Heidingsfelder approaches this complex question by dissecting the fabric of pop music in terms of its structural stratification and treating it as <em>\u2018social system, and not as an opaque accumulation of individual activities\u2019<\/em> whose prime goal is to flow and thereby serving as a \u2018<em>specific form of communication\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The timing of this research is significant as the current \u2018trend\u2019 of inculcating songs from the past, remixes and other form of reproduction of nostalgic memories in the latest pop music is on an all-time high. Furthermore, this research can also serve as a base line to answer one fundamental question, \u2018Why aren\u2019t we producing enough original content these days?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Though Dr. Heidingsfelder\u2019s work has been previously published in several prominent research journals from around the world, this will be the first time that his research article is being published by an Asian journal which is indeed a major milestone for him.<\/p>\n<p>You can access his research in the next issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/scs.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCiSA<\/a> due in June, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent faculty member Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder, of the Communication Studies and Design (CSD) program at Habib University\u2019s School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS), reached another academic milestone as his research article titled, \u2018Retrology: Addicted to the Future\u2019 has been selected to feature in the next issue of Society And Culture in South Asia<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/hu-professors-research-influence-retromania-published-scisa-journal\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faculty","8":"category-arts-humanities-social-sciences-ahss"},"acf":{"home_page_thumbnail":"","category_select":"","name_overwrite":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HU Prof Publishes Work on Retromania in SCiSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HU\u2019s Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder\u2019s research on \u2018retromania\u2019 in pop music will be published in SCiSA, exploring nostalgia\u2019s impact on musical originality.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/hu-professors-research-influence-retromania-published-scisa-journal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HU Prof Publishes Work on Retromania in SCiSA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HU\u2019s Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder\u2019s research on \u2018retromania\u2019 in pop music will be published in SCiSA, exploring nostalgia\u2019s impact on musical originality.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/hu-professors-research-influence-retromania-published-scisa-journal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Habib University | News &amp; 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