Trap reasserted a futurist aesthetic against 2010s retromania

Evidence

Trap’s dominance in hip-hop provided a sharp counterpoint to retromania. By rejecting the grooves of the sixties and seventies, trap reasserted a futurist aesthetic, suggesting that audiences could not subsist on nostalgia alone. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 393

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s stated goal of arguing the era DOES have a signature Marx misidentified — trap could be that signature. — connects to: Synthpop’s futurism is now a superseded past rather than an available future — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 448
• SEED: Angle: were 2010s trends like trap actually the missing evidence against the retromania thesis — a genuinely new sound emerging from a specific city, not recycled nostalgia?