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University offers first Beatles degree
A university in Liverpool has launched a Master of Arts degree in The Beatles, the city's most famous sons, and called the qualification the first of its kind.I've felt this inner emptiness all these many years. This wasn't what was missing. Liverpool Hope University says on its website that the course entitled "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society" consists of four 12-week taught modules and a dissertation. Think of the many hundreds of pages you could write discusing the existential meaning of Then when I awokeWhy, you could crank out a 900-pager just on Yoko. And she couldn't even sing. The best she could do was to shake a tambourine. "There have been over 8,000 books about The Beatles but there has never been serious academic study and that is what we are going to address," said Mike Brocken, senior lecturer in popular music at Hope. One wonders why. "Forty years on from their break-up, now is the right time and Liverpool is the right place to study The Beatles. "Everybody's unemployed, there is no work, so we might as well piss our time away studying the inconsequential." "This MA is expected to attract a great deal of attention, not just locally but nationally and we have already had enquiries from abroad, particularly the United States." ... where the inconsequential presented in a Brit accent is particularly prized... The university said it was the first postgraduate taught course on The Beatles in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world. And by Gum, I have an idea why. Posted by: Fred 2009-03-04 |
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