The GotPop Popular Culture Podcast: Recent Episodes
with Joe Trotta & Houman Sadri
The GotPop podcast explores all dimensions of today's popular culture. From zombies to superheroes to pundit-driven news to internet culture to graffiti and beyond, if it's popular culture, it's our culture.
In this episode, Audrey Taylor and Stefan Ekman join Joe Trotta to discuss a new approach to studying and understanding so-called 'World Building' by using 'Critical World Building'.
A different type of episode for us, this is a recording of our live performance at the Gothenburg Science Festival. Here we talk about what the podcast is about, how we use it for public outreach, why popular culture is important and last, but not least, what are the possible problems on the horizon for podcasting.
Here is the infographic mentioned in the podcast: https://musicoomph.com/podcast-statistics/
In Joe's absence, Houman sits down with Joakim Jahlmar from University West to talk about the continued resonance of classic literature and stories in popular culture. How do figures like Shakespeare and Milton continue to influence today's creators? What is intertextuality? And how do modern texts maintain dialogues with, and complement those that have come before?
Links: Kate Bush - "Wuthering Heights" white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4 Kate Bush - "Wuthering Heights" red: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs Marillion - "Grendel:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxp5KJOHqmI
Joakim Jahlmar - "Give the Devil His Due." https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/article/583338
On Kate Bush's Radical Interpretation of 'Wuthering Heights:' https://lithub.com/on-kate-bushs-radical-interpretation-of-wuthering-heights/?fbclid=IwAR0oeMMxnxDw2hKIefzva26WpvOsUKndIg7yIF8YH0K12v1q8mWw4p92hL4
Contact: joseph.trotta@sprak.gu.se houman.sadri@sprak.gu.se joakim.jahlmar@hv.se