Posted on 03/03/2009 4:25:07 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
LONDON (Reuters) - 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.
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.
"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.
"Forty years on from their break-up, now is the right time and Liverpool is the right place to study The Beatles.
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Forty years is the right time, right in the middle of the window of opportunity before such decadence destroys the moral and industrious West that made such decadent waste possible in the first place. All throughout the world, popular culture is busy at work killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Beatles and Basketweaving.
Another irrelevant and redundant nonsense degree.
Beats Black Studies and Women's Studies.
"And as I was saying ... ummm, students ... is mmmmprhrh meummpth after the Paul is Dead ... mummm .. hoax .. the ahhh ummm ehhhhh mrrrphg ... uhhhh ... (clears throat) ... ahhhh ... era of ummm ahhhh mmmrmmph ehhhh, business uhhh decline started .. hphasss ummm ... (inhales from pipe) ... errr ummmmphhh ... errrr ...... "
Hell, I probably got a PHD in that. Used to listen to them instead of studying. I guess when i told my parents I wasn’t goofing off, I was telling the truth.
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