History of the Beatles... the class.

Does anyone elses university have a class on the History of the Beatles? Mine does.. and I find myself enrolled in it.� My textbook? The Beatles Anthology.

So.. now .. I'll be spending 3 hours of my week studying the Fab Four.. their history.. their music.. and their influence on the world.

and another plus.. I get an Arts and Humanities credit for this.

Next semester, it's History of Rock And Roll for me :)

My college has/had "Jazz Rock Foundations", "American Pop Music", "Urban Blues and Rock" and "Hollywood Musicals." I was enrolled in these classes from 1990-1992 depending on the semester they were offered.

The only one I couldn't sit through was "Modern Jazz." I'm not a jazz fan. :(

Indiana University offers them.� A bigger series of them than I remembered.

Z201-History of Rock Music I: Roots of Rock to the British Invasion
Z202-History of Rock Music II: Rock's Classic Era
Z301-Rock Music in the 70's and 80's
Z320-The Music of Jimi Hendrix
Z320-Beach Boys, Beefheart & the Residents
Z401-The Music of the Beatles
Z402-The Music of Frank Zappa
Overseas Studies: The Beatles in London (Summer Session I, 2004)

Z402 is my god.

I am rather fond of R2-D2 myself. I sacrificed my first born, a son born to a Mexican virgin to him in 1975, exactly two years before my own birth and before Star Wars!

they still have virgins in mexico? Andf what type o' time machine did we use, a traditional flux capacitor powered delorean?

I took it last semester - it was awesome. It's really interesting to see the way they developed, and to hear their music in chronological order - you can actually hear which elements of music they picked up from where, and how things they did affected music made after them.

The answer to every test question is going to be, "Pete Best"

what university do you attend?

Better get some practice filling out unemployment forms too... ;)

I'm kidding, it's good to see that a liberal arts education still exists. And it sure beats staring at slides of Nude Descending a Staircase for a week.

My school has a class about the Beatles too. I took it last fall, but I already knew more about the Beatles than was taught in class as I have been studying them since sixth grade. I already owned/read the books we were using. One of them was Shout! by I think Norm McDonald. The book was full of errors.


The school also offered a Zappa/Beefheart class last semester and a Broadway Musical class this semester.

a book by norm mcdonald that's full of errors?

i am aghast. how dare you attack his academic and journalistic integrity.

/dripping_sarcasm

I figured he would start every chapter with "Germans love David Hasselhoff"