Psycherelic Rock

Abstract

Focusing on the psychedelic rock music of Australian group Tame Impala, this paper investigates how an experience of “ersatz nostalgia’ (Appadurai, 1996) might be evoked through the phonographic staging of sound in contemporary retro rock music. Unlike a traditional nostalgia for one’s own personal past, this music evidences a yearning for a past outside of lived experience. This effect of evoking nostalgic sentiment in new music relies in large part upon the use of particular sound elements that are identifiable by musicians and audiences as the sonic cultural markers of the 1960s and which appeal to the wider collective memory of that era.

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