The Doctor. Louie Dean Valencia took to Twitter on July 16, 2022 to announce the latest class news for a new course Texas State University will launch. This course will focus on the career of British singer Harry Styles.
The start of the course is scheduled for the first half of 2023 and the name will be “Harry Styles and Celebrity Cult: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture”. Freely translated into Portuguese, it is possible to understand it as “Harry Styles and the culture of celebrities: Identity, Internet and European Pop Culture”.
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This course aims to explore how the British singer-songwriter's career intersects with genre, sexuality, race, globalism, class, media, fan culture, internet culture and also with the consumerism. This content is intended to focus on European popular culture to understand the cultural and political developments of modern celebrities.
According to Valencia, the course will not focus on Styles' private life, but on his art and activism. public, film, literature, philosophy and music, as well as spanning One's former 12-year career Direction. He also recalls that historians always use artists and musicians to understand a moment in history.
TSU (Texas State University) honors students will have priority admissions, which will open this fall. Meanwhile, Valencia expects the course to be offered online and soon at universities across Europe.
It is worth remembering that the Clive Davis Institute at NYU (University of New York) also announced a research initiative focusing on the American singer Taylor Swift. The academy has a history of offering classes to renowned musical artists such as Beyoncé, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder and Prince.
Announced in early 2022, the course covers her evolution as a creative music entrepreneur, her legacy as a pop and country songwriter, youth discourse and racial politics in pop music contemporary. Finally, it is worth mentioning that until the writing of this article, the British singer Harry Styles had not yet commented on the fact that he is the most recent inspiration for university courses.