celeb news Yale to offer course on Beyonce's impact, professor shades Taylor

[midnightdawn]

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Next semester, Daphne Brooks, professor of African American Studies and music, will teach a new class titled "Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music." In the class, students will examine Beyoncé's artistic work from 2013 to 2024 as a lens to study Black history, intellectual thought and performance.

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In terms of projects, students will participate in screenings of her visual albums, work with archives in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and engage with public humanities projects designed to study Beyoncé's physical impact on the Black community. Students will also be encouraged to create playlists connecting Beyoncé's music to those of her influences.

"[This class] seemed good to teach because [Beyoncé] is just so ripe for teaching at this moment in time," Brooks said. "The number of breakthroughs and innovations she's executed and the way she's interwoven history and politics and really granular engagements with Black cultural life into her performance aesthetics and her utilization of her voice as a portal to think about history and politics — there's just no one like her."

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Brooks said that, from a fan's standpoint, seeing Beyoncé be slighted for album of the year at the Grammy's provides her more incentive to teach Beyoncé's impact in the classroom.

"Black women are sometimes completely marginalized from some of the highest accolades and are so rarely taken seriously as musicians who are capable of and worthy of recognition for serious monumental work," Brooks said. "We haven't had a moment to think about what it means to disregard Black women's artistic work."

She says that other artists, especially a particular artist who has most recently won Album of the Year four times at the Grammys, have hardly taken the risks Beyoncé has.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11/08/yale-to-offer-new-course-on-beyonces-cultural-impact-in-spring-2025/

[Cheers]

Professors will do anything to get another paycheck

[Prodigal Self]

anyway

[Prodigal Self]

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"Black women are sometimes completely marginalized from some of the highest accolades and are so rarely taken seriously as musicians who are capable of and worthy of recognition for serious monumental work," Brooks said. "We haven't had a moment to think about what it means to disregard Black women's artistic work."

She says that other artists, especially a particular artist who has most recently won Album of the Year four times at the Grammys, have hardly taken the risks Beyoncé has.

tea though!

[Wicked]

3 minutes ago, Prodigal Self said:

anyway

I got a migraine seeing 'Black Radical Tradition' like pls words mean things!

[Wonderland]

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She says that other artists, especially a particular artist who has most recently won Album of the Year four times at the Grammys, have hardly taken the risks Beyoncé has.

I'm screaming at the fact this ATRL-esque shade is coming from a Yale Professor

[BGKC]

Yea well this is all just so embarrassing (even if tea was spilled). I just feel better knowing I saved money as a community college graduate and knowing the tea for the free. 

Edited November 10 by BGKC

[Onyxmage]

Imagine someone seeing "The History of Beyonce" on your Degree Audit Report? I would die of embarrassment.

[Love4Janet]

Sign me up. I'd turn in a blank paper on her impact and get full credit

Edited November 10 by Love4Janet

[Sawk]

 

[fridayteenage]

18 minutes ago, Wonderland said:

I'm screaming at the fact this ATRL-esque shade is coming from a Yale Professor

is she gonna stanwar in her lectures and tests

[Shinning]

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She says that other artists, especially a particular artist who has most recently won Album of the Year four times at the Grammys, have hardly taken the risks Beyoncé has.

This is tea though.

[supaspaz]

18 minutes ago, Love4Janet said:

Sign me up. I'd turn in a blank paper on her impact and get full credit

Three edits and your joke still fell flat…

[Walk_Away21]

Not @Virgos Groove getting a job finally. Slay.

[liam13]

course on taylor: taylor swift

course on beyonce: taylor swift

[Sawk]

5 minutes ago, liam13 said:

course on taylor: taylor swift

course on beyonce: taylor swift

Wait… this is kinda funny, but totally untrue 

 

Bey also has Ivy Legaues teaching her impact, so not too much, babe 

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11/08/yale-to-offer-new-course-on-beyonces-cultural-impact-in-spring-2025/

[Florence Belch]

I can imagine one of her students bringing "The stanbases of ATRL and their interaction in a competitive environment (charts)" as a PhD topic, I kinda would love to read the results of this research

 

[Soda Pop Queen]

Wow, how many university courses on her is this so far? She has to be up there with Madonna for most academically studied female artist of all time.

 

When you not only have music industry impact, but have been able to shift the needle in society  

 

 

[dumbsparce]

Did you expect to hear anything else from a professor of African American Studies and music? 

[Jacobdaniel]

would professor Daphne Brooks lie?

[Jacobdaniel]

reminds me of the people in my college who got actual credit for studying the harry potter series

[OrgVisual]

Professor spills some scientific teas

[Arrows]

Everything ends up being about Taylor

[KahnumDash]

yale really fell off hard i guess

[itshyolee]

2 hours ago, midnightdawn said:

"Black women are sometimes completely marginalized from some of the highest accolades and are so rarely taken seriously as musicians who are capable of and worthy of recognition for serious monumental work," Brooks said. "We haven't had a moment to think about what it means to disregard Black women's artistic work."

She says that other artists, especially a particular artist who has most recently won Album of the Year four times at the Grammys, have hardly taken the risks Beyoncé has.

And it's true. White mediocrity always gets praised and showered with awards while you get people that question if Bey deserves the success and career she has…