Pop sensation Beyoncé, who has received a record 99 Grammy nominations and is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians in music history, will be the focus of a new course at Yale University next year.
“Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music,” a one-credit course, will cover the years from her 2013 self-titled album to this year’s genre-bending.
“Cowboy Carter” and how the well-known singer, songwriter, and businesswoman has raised awareness of and participation in social and political causes.
Daphne Brooks, a professor of African American Studies at Yale University, plans to utilize the performer’s extensive repertoire—which includes video of her live performances—as a “portal” .
For students to learn about Black thinkers, such as Toni Morrison and Frederick Douglass. “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 the way.
