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Beyonce To Receive A Yale Course In 2025 On Her Career Impact

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Beyonce To Receive A Yale Course In 2025 On Her Career Impact

Yale University will introduce a new course titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music” in the spring of 2025.

Developed by Professor Daphne Brooks from the African American Studies department, the course will explore Beyoncé‘s profound cultural and political influence. Brooks’s focus on the celebrated artist stems from her previous course, “Black Women in Popular Music Culture,” which she taught at Princeton University. “Those classes were always overenrolled,” Brooks shared with the *Yale Daily News*. “And there was so much energy around the focus on Beyoncé, even though it was a class that starts in the late 19th century and moves through the present day. I always thought I should come back to focusing on her and centering her work pedagogically at some point.”

COWBOY CARTER

Beyoncé’s recent work, *Cowboy Carter*, delves into the evolution of Black music in America. In this album, she revisits genres like country and folk music, originally rooted in Black culture but now mainstream. Her shift from pop towards more socially conscious projects provides a rich framework for Brooks to examine “American culture, popular culture, and global culture over the past two decades.”

Brooks hopes students from various liberal arts disciplines at Yale will see how studying culture through Beyoncé’s lens encourages a deeper understanding of art’s role in reflecting society, inspiring our spirits, and providing a space to envision better worlds and an ethics of freedom.

While Yale’s course examines Beyoncé’s journey toward enlightenment, feminism, and liberation, other universities are also offering unique perspectives on celebrity influence. For example, Georgia State University’s law school offers “Life of Issa Rae,” which explores the strategic deals that have driven Rae’s success in entertainment.

GRAMMY NOMINATION RECORD

Beyoncé topped the list of Grammy contenders announced Friday, receiving 11 nominations, including a nod for Album of the Year for her venture into country music, Cowboy Carter.

These latest nominations bring Beyoncé’s career total to an unprecedented 99, surpassing all other artists. She previously shared the record with her husband, rapper Jay-Z, who has 88 nominations.

Despite her record-breaking 32 Grammy wins, Beyoncé has yet to win in the Album of the Year category—a point Jay-Z highlighted at the previous Grammy ceremony, criticizing the Academy for not fully recognizing Black artists.

Experts and fans alike have praised Cowboy Carter as a tribute to the often-overlooked contributions of Black Americans to country music and culture. Upon its release last spring, the album became the first by a Black woman to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Many of Beyonce’s fans believed that Cowboy Carter had received more nominations as an album than Michael Jackson’s Thriller. However, New York Times has corrected the confusion by explaining that Thriller had 13 nominations, but Beyonce tied Michael Jackson for the actual artist getting 11 nominations for an album.

Officially, “Thriller” received a total of 13 nods when the 26th annual Grammy nominations were announced in early 1984. Jackson himself was cited in 11 of them. Of the two others, one was for Bruce Swedien, the album’s renowned engineer. The other cited Quincy Jones and James Ingram, the writers of the song “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing).”

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