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EnriqueShockwave10 t1_irwnlwf wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Wolverine519 in UC Berkeley to offer new course about Nicki Minaj spring 2023; Artist says she'd 'love to stop by' by Moug-10

>Nevertheless music history would still make sense as a course.

How so? I mean, I get that there is social importance to cataloguing the history of music, same as it's important to catalogue art history... but we're swinging this pendulum of liberal arts FAR too wide.

It doesn't make sense for kids to be dropping tens of thousand of dollars for the miniscule chance of being, at best, a museum director. The demand just isn't there.

I never took a music history class- but my brother took History of Hip Hop or some shit. He mentioned it was just a junk class for an easy credit- and, as a communications major, he was well familiarized with junk classes for easy credit.

I guess these classes would be helpful if your intention is to just sort of build the best possible bar-trivia team- but otherwise, I'm sort of failing to see the point of why we should be encouraging this.

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Ok_Wolverine519 t1_irwpmg8 wrote

>we're seeing this pendulum of liberal arts far too wide

There is nothing wrong with a course analyzing a specific individual and their impact. It's bizarre to act like this is overreach, especially in a art form filled with music defining names from Beethoven to Kanye.

You're also acting history of certain artists is anything new. Music Humanities has been a thing in Colombia since the 40s which some credits include basic introductions to various artists and their historical context.

The history and factors that contributed to the production of the music of many artists, and their music's infuence is important to understand and provide proper context to them or just to get a few credits under your belt.

>if your intention is to just build the best possible trivia tream

That's a bizarre handwave that can be applied to any course that focuses on history of any specific individual. Or anything higher education for that matter.

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EnriqueShockwave10 t1_irx8xyy wrote

Agree to disagree, I guess.

>That's a bizarre handwave that can be applied to any course that focuses on history of any specific individual. Or anything higher education for that matter.

Considering the state of college these days, that's sounds like a pretty accurate generalization.

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Ok_Wolverine519 t1_irxb9j7 wrote

As I said, bizarre handwave acting like any of this stuff is new or even bad.None of this is anything new to colleges, disregarding relevant education as only trivia is nonsensical as is your axe grinding against higher education.

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