2020: America’s Unexpected Cultural Force

frank talks, Shawn Taylor and Tracy Van Slyke 

Special Guest, Jeff Yang

Continuing their exciting conversation from WONDERLAND season 1 on the power of pop culture fandoms and social change, in this episode we listen to excerpts of Pop Culture Collaborative Senior Fellow Shawn Taylor and WONDERLAND co-host’s Tracy Van Slyke’s separate, but deeply intertwined frank talks. They both share personal stories of how and why pop culture fandoms are the focus of their work, and present burning questions and big ideas that provide a framework for how self-organized groups people along with their pop culture passions, are the next big thing for creating culture change. Bridgit and Tracy then call up Jeff Yang, cultural critic turned culture trend forecaster, to discuss his reactions to the frank talks, and dig into how fandoms are an unexpected, but powerful force in the 2020 election season.

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WONDERLAND @ FRANK TEAM

Hosts and Executive Producers, Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke

Producers, Nancy Vitale and Destry Sibley

Sound Designer, Samantha Gattsek

Sound Engineers, Matt Noble, Mike Gilmore, Eric Elterman, and Colin Ashmaed-Bobbit

Website Designer, Deanna Zandt

Project Coordinator, Daria Segalini

Recorded at The Awareness Group Studios in New York City, the Loft Recording Studios in Bronxville, NY, and WBEZ in Chicago

Special thanks to our friends at frank, Jade Dozier, Lauren Rawlings, and Joey Ehrenkaufer

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