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Jens Balzer: Ein Feuilletonist über Pop und Populismus

17 March 2021, with Joël Kaczmarek, Sebastian Krumbiegel and Jens Balzer

Summary

This episode is in German.

Music journalist and feuilletonist Jens Balzer discusses pop criticism as a form of self-negotiation between subjectivity, responsibility and public debate. He analyses how popular culture connects to wider social currents, what role music plays in political opinion-forming and how that has changed. The conversation also covers how pop criticism shapes the perception of artists and their influence, and the hard questions it raises about language, power and morality in the mainstream.

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