Pop Culture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 3, 2008
Dr. Chad Stebbins
(417) 625-9736

 

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) – An upcoming presentation at Missouri Southern State University will compare and contrast the popular culture of Germany to the pop culture in the United States.

 

Alexander Ganz

• Alexander Ganz, graduate assistant in the German program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, will present “Pop-Cultural Relations Between Germany and the U.S.: The Simpsons, Family Guy and Music as a Learning Experience” at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9 in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall.

 

The event is free and open to the public.

This presentation will feature pop culture and pop icons that are present in both the United States and Germany. Ganz will focus on the ways certain TV series and popular music represent culture, language and society and why they are important.

 

Ganz will discuss not only what is popular in Germany, but also the role of pop culture in the language-learning experience as it applies to Germans learning English and learners of German as a second language.

 

A native German, Ganz spent over two years in the United States prior to his graduate studies working as an au pair and a designer in an advertising agency.

 

He received a B.A.- equivalent in American Studies and Communication at the University of Leipzig in Germany.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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