Black Sun: Just Dance
2nd episode of podcast by Karel Veselý
The podcast maps the history of sadness, melancholy and anxiety in western popular music and shows how the mood of pop culture is connected to the context of its times.
The second part, called Just Dance, examines the reaction of American pop music to a financial crisis of 2008 until the Trump victory in the 2016 elections. We follow the music of Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift as the pop music went through the cycle of getting over to the shock of collapsing economy.
Author: Karel Veselý
Voice: Michael Pitthan
Sound design: Jiří Špičák
Translation: Guy Tabachnick
Thanks to Sype Studios
Institute of Anxiety. 2018
Popis podcastu
The Institute of Anxiety creates a space for the study of anxiety, which is spreading throughout society and manifests itself through insomnia, stress, alienation, loss of empathy, inequalities, and violence. It is suppressed without success by products of the pharmaceutical industry and intensified by growing social and economic uncertainty. The institute aims to be a platform where anxiety communicates and opens itself to a potential solution and turns into a force that is capable of radicalizing and forcing structural changes in the current state of affairs.