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Aug 29, 2024 47 min

Foreign Correspondent Unplugged - Pop and Protest

from Foreign Correspondent Unplugged Hosted by American Council on Germany

On August 22, the sixth discussion in the Foreign Correspondent Unplugged series was held in collaboration with the Thomas Mann House and the American Council on Germany at the Goethe Institut in Los Angeles. The conversation featured music Journalists Aida Baghernejad (2024 Thomas Mann Fellow) and August Brown (LA Times) as they discussed the powerful interplay between pop culture and the politics of protest in a conversation moderated by Annett Scheffel. The panelists explored how pop culture has become an indispensable arena for political expression and activism, examining the paradigm shifts in music journalism and the dynamic relationship between entertainment and social change. In this discussion the journalists negotiated how pop culture can act as an agent of hope and its role as a tool for supporting democracies in peril.

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