Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Liverpool university to offer first Beatles degree...

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. More...

See also:

  1. A Day in the Life of Abbey Road...
  2. 40 years ago, the Beatles release the White Album...
  3. The Beatles in Liverpool: a photo story...
  4. The Beatles and A Day in the Life...
  5. The Beatles sing about a girl...

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