Post by B on Feb 16, 2011 19:16:49 GMT -5
Canadian woman is world's first Beatles graduate
Fab Four fan graduates from Liverpool Hope University with MA in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society
www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/27/worlds-first-beatles-graduate?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Sean Michaels Thursday 27 January 2011
guardian.co.uk
Finally, there is a Beatles fan with a degree to prove it. Fifty-three-year-old Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy has become the first graduate of Liverpool Hope University's MA in the Beatles. This new master of Fab Fourology studied the Beatles' compositions, sound and impact on pop culture.
"It's absolutely academic," Zahalan-Kennedy told the BBC. "It was an examination of how the Beatles came to be. What the political and social climate was and the cultural aspects that helped to facilitate an environment where the Beatles could happen."
In 2009, the Liverpool university launched the programme The Beatles, Popular Music and Society, which examines the "significance of the music of the Beatles in the construction of identities, audiences, ethnicities and industries, and localities". Zahalan-Kennedy was one of 12 full-time students; she graduated yesterday.
"I am so proud of my achievement," she said. "The course was challenging, enjoyable and it provided a great insight into the impact the Beatles had and still have to this day across all aspects of life." Dr Michael Brocken, founder of the Beatles MA course, said: "Mary-Lu now joins an internationally recognised group of scholars of popular music studies."
Besides her recent achievement, Zahalan-Kennedy won a Juno award in 1983 for Canada's most promising female vocalist. She has released three albums and teaches at Ontario's Sheridan College.
comment sent in by reader:
I never thought I'd see a Beatles degree In My Life, but with the way this world is going, this should be a surprise For No One. It Won't Be Long until degrees of this sort are offered Here, There and Everywhere. So well done to the Girl. I'm So Tired of people belittling degrees like this. No doubt she had to work Eight Days A Week and many A Hard Day's Night for it so just Let it Be, everybody.
And as Richard Keys might say, apparently this Bird Can Sing.
my comment: Having been down this road studying UFOs, I can tell you that what
will happen is that in 25 years some daring acadame will dare to venture an opinion that
"Paul is Dead" wasn't just a scheme to make money, and, amidst scorn from his peers, he'll be
an outcast, seen as "shockingly outspoken".
All the stuff we've covered here will finally come out in about 60 years, but none of us will get the credit.
Some officially sanctioned pompous windbag will take the credit, and kids in school will never be
told the whole truth of the matter.
Fab Four fan graduates from Liverpool Hope University with MA in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society
www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/27/worlds-first-beatles-graduate?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Sean Michaels Thursday 27 January 2011
guardian.co.uk
Finally, there is a Beatles fan with a degree to prove it. Fifty-three-year-old Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy has become the first graduate of Liverpool Hope University's MA in the Beatles. This new master of Fab Fourology studied the Beatles' compositions, sound and impact on pop culture.
"It's absolutely academic," Zahalan-Kennedy told the BBC. "It was an examination of how the Beatles came to be. What the political and social climate was and the cultural aspects that helped to facilitate an environment where the Beatles could happen."
In 2009, the Liverpool university launched the programme The Beatles, Popular Music and Society, which examines the "significance of the music of the Beatles in the construction of identities, audiences, ethnicities and industries, and localities". Zahalan-Kennedy was one of 12 full-time students; she graduated yesterday.
"I am so proud of my achievement," she said. "The course was challenging, enjoyable and it provided a great insight into the impact the Beatles had and still have to this day across all aspects of life." Dr Michael Brocken, founder of the Beatles MA course, said: "Mary-Lu now joins an internationally recognised group of scholars of popular music studies."
Besides her recent achievement, Zahalan-Kennedy won a Juno award in 1983 for Canada's most promising female vocalist. She has released three albums and teaches at Ontario's Sheridan College.
comment sent in by reader:
I never thought I'd see a Beatles degree In My Life, but with the way this world is going, this should be a surprise For No One. It Won't Be Long until degrees of this sort are offered Here, There and Everywhere. So well done to the Girl. I'm So Tired of people belittling degrees like this. No doubt she had to work Eight Days A Week and many A Hard Day's Night for it so just Let it Be, everybody.
And as Richard Keys might say, apparently this Bird Can Sing.
my comment: Having been down this road studying UFOs, I can tell you that what
will happen is that in 25 years some daring acadame will dare to venture an opinion that
"Paul is Dead" wasn't just a scheme to make money, and, amidst scorn from his peers, he'll be
an outcast, seen as "shockingly outspoken".
All the stuff we've covered here will finally come out in about 60 years, but none of us will get the credit.
Some officially sanctioned pompous windbag will take the credit, and kids in school will never be
told the whole truth of the matter.
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Speak a luncheon at the 101 Yoko Impersonator Conference being held in NYC??? Open for Beatlemania as it travels around the US?