A Texas university is offering a course centred on the pop star. I studied Anglo-Saxon, so I’m all in favour of allegedly ‘useless’ qualifications
, among others – the idea of building a course around an icon of popular culture is strikingly at odds with a government that believes there must be a demonstrable line between learning and employment .
The reality is that those hellbent on requiring education to be “useful” would be just as opposed to the idea of students sitting in a language lab learning Anglo-Saxon as they would be with an American cohort of 21st-century undergraduates analysing the lyrics of Watermelon Sugar and Harry’s ad campaigns for Gucci.
It’s the kind of question that gets confused with establishing a hierarchy of artworks themselves. Isbetter than a Mills & Boon? Yes. Is it interesting to consider the production and reception of a Mills & Boon in relation to the wider culture? Also yes. Which one should I read? As you prefer, because books, art, music and all are not indicators of intelligence or moral superiority, they’re just incredible sources of enlightenment and pleasure.
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