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With a record 99 Grammy nominations and acclaim as one of the most influential artists in music history, pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University next year.

Titled "Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music," the one-credit class will focus on the period from her 2013 self-titled album through this year's genre-defying "Cowboy Carter" and how the world-famous singer, songwriter and entrepreneur has generated awareness and engagement in social and political ideologies.

Yale University's African American Studies Professor Daphne Brooks intends to use the performer's wide-ranging repertoire, including footage of her live performances, as a "portal" for students to learn about Black intellectuals, from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison.

"We're going to be taking seriously the ways in which the critical work, the intellectual work of some of our greatest thinkers in American culture resonates with Beyoncé's music and thinking about the ways in which we can apply their philosophies to her work" and how it has sometimes been at odds with the "Black radical intellectual tradition," Brooks said.

Beyoncé, whose full name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, is not the first performer to be the subject of a college-level course. There have been courses on singer and songwriter Bob Dylan over the years and several colleges and universities have recently offered classes on singer Taylor Swift and her lyrics and pop culture legacy. That includes law professors who hope to engage a new generation of lawyers by using a famous celebrity like Swift to bring context to complicated, real-world concepts.

Professors at other colleges and universities have also incorporated Beyoncé into their courses or offered classes on the superstar.

Brooks sees Beyoncé in a league of her own, crediting the singer with using her platform to "spectacularly elevate awareness of and engagement with grassroots, social, political ideologies and movements" in her music, including the Black Lives Matter movement and Black feminist commentary.

"Can you think of any other pop musician who's invited an array of grassroots activists to participate in these longform multimedia album projects that she's given us since 2013," asked Brooks. She noted how Beyoncé has also tried to tell a story through her music about "race and gender and sexuality in the context of the 400-year-plus history of African-American subjugation."

"She's a fascinating artist because historical memory, as I often refer to it, and also the kind of impulse to be an archive of that historical memory, it's just all over her work," Brooks said. "And you just don't see that with any other artist."

Brooks previously taught a well-received class on Black women in popular music culture at Princeton University and discovered her students were most excited about the portion dedicated to Beyoncé. She expects her class at Yale will be especially popular, but she's trying to keep the size of the group relatively small.

For those who manage to snag a seat next semester, they shouldn't get their hopes up about seeing Queen Bey in person.

"It's too bad because if she were on tour, I would definitely try to take the class to see her," Brooks said.

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Beyonce is truly a remarkable singer

[quote author=Zonefree post=132868299]
We're studying Tinubu already. [/quote

Lol, Tinubu is a bad course, I won't spend a dime to study such course

Who do we study in Nigeria? 2baba, Timaya, wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido or Tiwa savage?


But I like it when people are honored while they are still alive

God1000:
Who do we study in Nigeria

We're studying Tinubu already.

So people go Dey study Beyoncé now as a course and the course content go b like
1 INTRODUCTION
Definition of Beyoncé
Functions of Beyoncé
Advantages and Disadvantages of Beyoncé
Legacies of Beyoncé

Those interested in ission to study Ebangology 101 in the prestigious university of Equatorial Guinea should me..

Only women will be accepted for ission

Signed
Professor Baltazar

Thats what blacks love. Vain arts and glory.

Mad people everywhere 🙄

God1000:
Who do we study in Nigeria? 2baba, wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido or Tiwa savage?


But I like it when people are honored while they are still alive

what about the legendary Psquare

To cash out from her fans .. Cash stripped university

Leftists and stupidity.

How about studying how to reduce world poverty and hunger?

Key is education. NO!
Education is key. DAMN!
Just make sure your are winning.



No comment; next question

Zonefree:

We're studying Tinubu already.

PINKY: Omo!


BRAIN: Mhen!

instead of studying notable ppl like Michael Jackson, they are studying this one...which stupid legacy did she have

Wetin come be her legacy?

Insaner climes!

ACTIVE
Architectural Designs, Building Plans

That Ebanga guy from Ikputorial Gini woulda been a better course 😂

004gist:
To cash out from her fans .. Cash stripped university

lol really

Rada rada.
This explains how universities just come up with nonsense courses without use to humanity.
Na one person came up with Pol-science.
Another came up with Business (I can tell you business is not a discipline, it's just like a beggar who begged for rice, bread, dodo, and coke - and decided to give the food a name)
Well, with our population growth and everybody seeking dynamism courses like this will still sell.

Lol fallen empire symptoms. Convict president and now their best university has Beyoncé studies. Awon werey

CodeTemplarr:
Thats what blacks love. Vain arts and glory.

you know them

I’m sure it’s an elective. I don’t see what the issue is.
Don’t study it if you don’t want to. No one will make you do it.

It will most definitely will come in handy to students who want to go on later to become successful artists, business people, industry leaders and cultural figures. Because she’s all that and more. Learning how she did it can’t hurt.

I had a whole chapter about Elvis Presley in one of my elective sociology classes. No one complained

diamond68:
Lol fallen empire symptoms. Convict president and now their best university has Beyoncé studies. Awon werey

Pls don’t insult our president elect and his First Lady

frankmoney:
you know them

All fields of studies have their importance to modern world andni wonder what studying one artist somewhere will add to humanity. One genre among many, one woman among many others. What is that gong to achieve?

There should be a course on Ronaldo too
His style of football and confidence

ChizzyBuna:
These Universities are Criminals

They know that these type of degrees are useless to society.
So they offer this useless courses for 3 years
And charge you big money

Then after 3 years of studying rubbish and paying huge money to university.

Them go discharge you back home with your useless degree. You go just dey house dey waste. Nobody go employ you

And the employer would like, what did you study in school?

Person seeking employment: I study Beyonce sir.
Employer: Wow!

Ray07:
And the employer would like, what did you study in school?

Person seeking employment: I study Beyonce sir.
Employer: Wow!

Hope the program is free

I heard there are people that worship her also

Read about a lady that sacrificed herself for her...She puff herself


Nonsense