Popakademie Talks on the topic of “Czech pop culture”

The Popakademie Talks start on Tuesday, 15.10.2024. At 7 pm with Jakub Machek He will talk about disco culture in Czechoslovakia. Jakub Machek is a social historian and teaches at the Faculty of Media Studies at the Metropolitan University of Prague. He is the author of the monograph Počátky populární kultury v českých zemích (The Emergence of Popular Culture in the Czech Lands, 2017) and has co-edited several collections of essays. His works deal with the development of Czech popular culture, media and society in the 20th and 21st centuries. Century. His latest research deals with the function of music in Czech society, from brass band music to disco. He is a founding member of the Center for Popular Culture Research in Prague.

On Tuesday, 19.11. from 7 pm, Ondřej Daniel will talk about Slavic references in contemporary EDM. On Tuesday, December 10 at 7 pm, Zdeněk Nebřenský will talk about the use of popular music in the 1960s among students and intellectuals in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
The talks will take place at the Popakademie in room 001, registration is not necessary.

The Popakademie Talks this semester build on the previous collaboration between the Center for Popular Culture Research (CSPK) and the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg as part of the project “East German and Czech Youth, Popular Music and Class in Times of Post-Socialist Change” (2021). In this context, the conference “Contemporary Cultural History 2.0: ‘Nurturing Talents of Central and Central Eastern Europe’ took place on September 26 and 27, 2024 at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague. Prof. Dr. David-Emil Wickström (Head of Pop Music Design B.A. and Global Music B.A.) took part on behalf of the Popakademie. He spoke about “A war of Songs: Popular Music and recent Russia-Ukraine Relations” and moderated a panel on “Studying Punk between Memory an Heritagization” with Alexander Pehlemann and Miroslav Michela.