Yale University Offers New Course On Beyonce's Cultural Impact

Study in US: Yale University has announced a new course on Beyonce's cultural impact to start from next spring. The title of the course is - Beyonce Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music.

Yale University's upcoming spring courses also include a course on music legend Beyonce titled - “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music”.

The course will reportedly analyse about her influence as it relates to intellectual performance, thought and Black history. Daphne Brooks, a professor of African American Studies and music will teach in the class. “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 utilisation of her voice as a portal to think about history and politics — there’s just no one like her,” Brooks said to Yale Daily News.

"The class will focus more on the music legend’s latter works, such as “Lemonade,” “Renaissance” and “Cowboy Carter”, as opposed to her earlier albums, as Brooks wants to highlight Beyoncé’s break from “typical pop repertoire," added Brooks.

Yale's Course On Beyonce: More Details

The course will mainly be around her fashion, visual media and sonic after her self-titled album in 2013 called the “Cowboy Carter.” There will be discussions among participating students surrounding readings from scholars including the Combahee River Collective, Hortense Spillers, Karl Hagstrom Miller, and Cedric Robinson.

“2013 was really such a watershed moment in which she articulated her beliefs in Black feminism. [In Flawless], it was the first time a pop artist had used sound bites from a Black feminist like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It became more about ‘We are going to produce club bangers that are also galvanizing our ability to think radically about the state of liberation," Brooks further added.

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Suzanne Akuley, a U.S. Army veteran is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Medicine's Biomedical Informatics & Data Science department.

She said, "I wanted to continue my service in a different capacity. Now I am moving in the direction of being an independent researcher in the area of chronic pain, which a lot of our veterans experience. Whatever we learn, we are able to contribute back to the community."

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