It’s inevitable. With the passing of the years and the advancement of contemporary history, the syllabus of academic teaching cannot remain intact forever and ever. The new historical milestones and events that shake the evolving society require reviewing the lessons taught in classes and replacing issues of little relevance for students with others of greater relevance and impact. This change will not be carried out in schools, but it can be applied in university studies with practical cases. Thus, AI, Covid or the wars of the 21st century star in subjects while entire courses are dedicated to other stars of the show. Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus either Lana Del Rey have already been studied at the university for their contribution to musicand now a new name is added to this list.
The career of Beyoncethe artist with the most nominations in Grammy history with almost a hundred, places her among the richest women in the United States and is, once again, worthy of study. Her success story was already studied ten decades ago at Harvard University, where a professor analyzed the business strategy of launching her album ‘Beyoncé’ without promotion and secret. Now, the launch of a new university course has surprised all her followers due to the singer’s convoluted connection to the university syllabus.
In 2025, the prestigious Yale University will teach a class with the artist’s dedication to the world of music and entertainment, from which educational values and practical cases useful for analysis in academic studies can be extracted. The next semester of 2025, Beyoncé will be the central axis of a course at the private institution in New Haven, after also visiting other renowned institutions such as the University of Texas or the University of Michigan. Recently, those responsible for the training have explained the logical sense of studying the vaunted career of the artist, which hides a relationship with his own intellect.
His genius and book-like intellect
Daphne Brooksprofessor of American History, Women’s History, Gender History, and Music History at the University of African American Studies, will teach classes on a seamless syllabus. The students who enroll in the course, perhaps staunch fans of the singer, will learn the evolution of the path of Beyoncé, also understanding what her sound is like, her use of fashion or the visual media she works with. Titled ‘Beyoncé Makes History: The History, Culture, Theory, and Politics of the Black Radical Tradition Through Music’, the course attempts to put the spotlight on “the relationship between Beyoncé’s artistic genius and the practice of black intellectuality”, in the words of the professor.
As Brooks has assured the ‘Yale Daily News’, the course comes when Beyoncé is in her “most mature stage” of her musical career. “The amount of advancements and innovations that he has made and the way that he has intertwined history and politics with a really detailed engagement with black cultural life through aesthetics in his performances and in the use of his voice They are like a portal to reflect on history and politics. There’s just no one like her,” Daphne said. Thus, the student who takes this study will leave it with general knowledge about “black history, intellectual thought and performance” and, in addition to Beyoncé, they will meet other icons such as Betty David either Diana Ross.
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