Harry Styles fans, Montage!
Texas State University plans to offer a course on British pop superstars next spring.
Louis Dean Valencia, associate professor of digital history, announced the course on Twitter on Saturday, titled “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture.”
According to the Declaration of Valencia, the class “will focus on styles and popular European culture to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity relating to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture”. ” Internet culture and consumerism.”
Coursework will count towards studies in European or world history, international studies, pop culture, diversity and women’s and gender studies.
Although Honors College students take first place in the course, it will also be open to non-Hons students.
“The way I like to describe the class is that it’s really about the past 12 years of history. So, it’s about Harry Styles in the same way that some classes are about The Beatles and you Can take a class like that to learn about, What were the ’60s like?'” Valencia said in an interview with KXAN. “This class will give you an idea of questions about issues of globalism, gender, sexuality, race, and really trying to peel apart, how did we become a part of the world we live in today?”
Unsurprisingly, Valencia stated that she is a “huge fan” herself, and began listening to Styles’ music during her One Direction days. This summer, she visited the star’s hometown in England, watching her fashion exhibition and one of her recent “Love on Tour” shows.
“As a historian, I want the class to really get to see how the world has changed over the past 12 years, but also how to put it in historical context, through the lens of Harry Styles, and How can they learn from him and his art, activism and philosophy, like any great artist,” Valencia told KXAN.
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