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Canadian woman first to graduate with Beatles degree


Showbiz | 206917 hits | Jan 27 7:30 am | Posted by: Guy_Fawkes
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A Canadian has become the first person to graduate from a Liverpool university's master's program on The Beatles. But Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy says she wasn't a Fab Four fanatic when she started the degree.

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  1. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:33 pm
    Anyone else think this is a pretty useless course?

  2. by Regina Gold Member
    Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:46 pm
    Apparently she was a Canadian "Rocker" back in 82. 8O

  3. by avatar GreenTiger
    Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:24 pm
    Yes Guy this is a very useless degree. I think even they would laugh.

  4. by avatar Brenda
    Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:26 pm
    People spend tons of money on stupid shit. Who cares?

  5. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:32 pm
    You would think for the amount of space this course took you could have had more useful courses being taught. It's just so annoying when you think about all the time and money spend on such a useless pursuit.

  6. by Choban
    Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:25 pm
    I believe she needed some sort of Masters to continue teaching herself and opted for this one, so probably not useless to her.

  7. by avatar BeaverFever
    Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:22 am
    The program, "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society," is considered by the university to be the first of its kind.

    It involves much more than "just being a Beatles fan and listening to their music all day," Zahalan-Kennedy said.

    "It's really about history and genres of music and semiotics, which is the language of music and ... how communities are forged with different identities happening because of the way music is delivered," she said.



    Sounds like its Beatles-themed musicology program, rather than a program about the Beatles. Probably just as useful as any other graduate course in musicology.

  8. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:33 am
    ...do you want fries with that?

  9. by avatar BeaverFever
    Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:41 am
    Well, unless you intend to teach music...I'm sure the recording industry is interested in people like that too. But otherwise, seems there'd be limited demand for that type of expertise.

  10. by avatar Brenda
    Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:45 am
    It would look AWESOME on your resume...
    University degree in "The Beatles".
    "so ma'am, what have you done the past few years? I see you attended University to get WHAT degree?? If you spent your time on useless crap like that, what are you going to do in MY time? NEXT!!"



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