From NBC
Yale University is getting in formation with a course dedicated to studying Beyoncé.
Starting this upcoming spring semester, Yale will offer a class titled “Beyonce Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music.” The aim, according to its course description, is to use her work as a lens through which to examine Black intellectual thought and activism.
It’s the latest college course to take on pop culture-inspired themes by focusing on a global music superstar, as universities around the world have embraced classes on the cultural impact of celebrities including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
Following Beyoncé’s innovations and influence from her self-titled 2013 album to her latest, “Cowboy Carter,” students will analyze her albums, performance politics and concert films.
By looking at her midcareer repertoire, Yale’s new course will explore scholarly works and cultural texts across Black feminist theory, philosophy and anthropology, as well as art history, performance studies and musicology, the course description states.
The class will be taught by writer and Black studies scholar Daphne Brooks, who co-founded Yale’s Black Sound & the Archive Working Group, a community of faculty and students working to “explore the untapped variety of black sound archives.”
Brooks said via email that the course has been in the works for years. Having previously taught a course titled “Black Women and Popular Music Culture” at Princeton University, Brooks said this will be her first opportunity to devote an entire lecture course to Beyoncé’s work.
13 comments:
Syllabus, please
Anyone that squanders 70k a semester at Yale on a course in Beyonce should be medically studied.
Yale needs to offer a course to Beyoncé. 📕 🐝
Y'all don't have to like her but you should know what she brings to the broader culture.
People take out student loans for this? Sociology is a junk and pseudo science. Their opinions don't matter.
Hope the syllabus includes: beating your cheating man's car with a baseball bat because that will surely solve the problem, loving your natural hair, being a feminist yet staying with a cheater, how to buy awards on the cheap. I wanna enroll!
Wow.
Smh, next course will be on Diddys political influence. Can't imagine in all of America only 3 or 4 were talented enough to influence the negros.
This is not a first.
Unit 1 Leotards
Unit 2 P Popping
Unit 3 Blond wigs
Unit 4 Copy/Paste (Inspiration)
“ Yale is offering a course on Beyoncé's political and cultural impact”
She has no impact on politics. That’s why Kamala lost, Hilary lost. Her performance and/or speeches helped nothing.
At least it’s a course on a Black American artist, there’s that. It could’ve been about that pasty, flat as a board annoying Cauc Taylor Swift.
A study in your dad having a oops baby by the maid and pushed it under the rug and how she used 5 women to use as a crutch until she felt confident enough to go solo 101. How to marry an ex drug dealer and sell garbage to the masses 202 and the final course is how to still appeal to black folks while looking and simulating a whole white woman
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