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Hair and nails, glitter and gloss, short skirts... Generation Z is reclaiming long-discredited stereotypes and reinventing women's fashion- It’s a new wave that includes the queer community and questions traditional ideals of beauty. Tracks investigates hyperfemininity and asks whether this reinterpretation can be subversive and empowering.

Hyperfemininity: Fashion is Politics

Hair and nails, glitter and gloss, short skirts... Generation Z is reclaiming long-discredited stereotypes and reinventing women's fashion

Tracks

German rapper Skinny Finsta tells us about his passion for tapes of Memphis Rap, Memphis Tennessee’s own subgenre.

Memphis Rap

Tracks: Tapemania

With the rise of the far right in Europe, German athletes and artists from a migrant background are increasingly exposed to racist hostility. Ahead of the Paris Olympics, TRACKS asks: How do minority athletes cope with giving their all for a country that shows them so much hatred?

Racism in Sport

German athletes and musicians from a migration background talk about their struggles against racism.

Rhythm is like life. It’s about keeping going, about moving on. The Heart is a Drum is the story of how German drummer Klaus Dinger inspired a generation of musicians with the seminal 1970s krautrock band Neu! founded with Michael Rother. Contributions from Iggy Pop, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Joy Division’s Stephen Morris.

Klaus Dinger

German drummer Klaus Dinger inspired a generation of musicians with the seminal 1970s krautrock band Neu! founded with Michael Rother. Contributions from Iggy Pop, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Joy Division’s Stephen Morris.

The Heart is a Drum

German-Polish singer Alli Neumann travels to Warsaw, as the new Polish government is sworn in, to meet people from the city's arts scene. What are their hopes do they have for the new government? Neumann talks to burlesque dancer Betty Q and music agent Paulina Żaczek.

Turning Point in Poland

German-Polish singer Alli Neumann travels to Warsaw, as the new Polish government is sworn in, to meet people from the city's arts scene.

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa still faces many challenges. The generation born after Nelson Mandela came to power in 1994 struggles with poverty, unemployment, and a lack of prospects. But music, which plays a major role in South African society, is a cause for hope in the rainbow nation.

South Africa: 30 Years after Apartheid

The generation born after Nelson Mandela came to power in 1994 struggles with poverty, but musical creativity gives hope.

Tracks East

In 2021, something incredible happened: modest private investors took on the powerful Wall Street hedge fund giants. Their weapons: a financial YouTuber in a cat jumper, a toxic subreddit and an ever-growing following.

The GameStop Short Squeeze

They were going to take down the whole financial system, but it didn’t quite work out.

Super Fails

It’s 2013 and Barack Obama is visiting Berlin. And we’ve just learned that the American have been spying on Germany and other allies on an industrial scale. What will Merkel say?

Angela Merkel Discovers the Internet

When the USA wiretaps Germany and Angela Merkel discovers the Internet.

This is the story of two guys who find that the tampons in their flatmate's bathroom bin smell too bad. So they invent disposable pink gloves with built-in bin liners and call them Pinky Gloves.

If Mansplaining Were a Product

This is the story of two guys who find that the tampons in their flatmate's bathroom bin smell too bad.Great idea, right?

Super Fails: Pinkgloves

Sam Bankman-Fried was living the American Dream, becoming a billionaire from his cryptocurrency exchange company, FTX. But then he was charged for multibillion dollar fraud. Oh dear.

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

SBF got filthy rich through his cryptocurrency company, FTX. But then he was charged for multibillion dollar fraud. Oh dear.

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Hyperfemininity: Fashion is Politics

Tracks: Tapemania

Memphis Rap

Tracks

Racism in Sport

The Heart is a Drum

Klaus Dinger

Tracks

Turning Point in Poland

Tracks East

South Africa: 30 Years after Apartheid

Super Fails

The GameStop Short Squeeze

Super Fails

Angela Merkel Discovers the Internet

Super Fails: Pinkgloves

If Mansplaining Were a Product

Super Fails:

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

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Tracks

Hyperfemininity: Fashion is Politics

Tracks: Tapemania

Memphis Rap

Tracks

Racism in Sport

The Heart is a Drum

Klaus Dinger

Tracks

Turning Point in Poland

Tracks East

South Africa: 30 Years after Apartheid

Super Fails

The GameStop Short Squeeze

Super Fails

Angela Merkel Discovers the Internet

Super Fails: Pinkgloves

If Mansplaining Were a Product

Super Fails:

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

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