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Beyoncé’s impact recognized by Yale with course dedicated to her legacy

The course will also examine concert films and performance politics

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Beyoncé’s impact recognized by Yale with course dedicated to her legacy

The course will also examine concert films and performance politics

Beyoncé’s impact recognized by Yale with course dedicated to her legacy
Beyoncé’s impact recognized by Yale with course dedicated to her legacy

Yale University has launched an innovative course exploring the political and cultural impact of Beyoncé, delving into her role as a global icon, social activist, and influential voice in contemporary culture.

According to the course description, the Grammy's winner musical career, particularly her 2013 self-titled album and her most recent album, Cowboy Carter, is the main topic of this course.

It also looks into her concert films and performance politics in light of Black activism and intellectual ideas.

The course description states that it will also delve into scholarly and cultural literature from the disciplines of black feminist theory, philosophy, anthropology, art history, performance studies, and musicology.

The writer and black studies scholar Daphne Brooks, will be the course instructor.

She told NBC via email, "I'm looking forward to exploring her body of work and considering how, among other things, historical memory, black feminist politics, black liberation politics and philosophies course through the last decade of her performance repertoire as well as the ways that her unprecedented experimentations with the album form, itself, have provided her with the platform to mobilize these themes."

Previously, in the early 2010s, the University of Illinois at Chicago added Beyonce: Critical Feminist Perspectives and US Black Womanhood, and Rutgers University presented Politicising Beyonce in the courses respectively.