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Double hyphenation and a Masters in Beatlesology--the signs of modern scholarship.

First Beatles scholar graduates in Liverpool
APNews



A former Miss Canada finalist has become the first graduate of a Liverpool university's groundbreaking degree program based on analyzing the Beatles' music and their impact on Western culture.

Liverpool Hope University officials believe the master's program offers the first advanced degree based on the life and times of the Fab Four.

Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy joined the program when it started in 2009 and graduated Wednesday. She is one of 12 full-time students of the program _ "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society."

Zahalan-Kennedy, a singer and actress, said the course provided insight into the wide-ranging influence of the Beatles.

The course also deals with how the port city of Liverpool helped shape the group's identity.

This isn't from The Onion. Actual content from program prospectus:

2.1 Programme Aims

To provide the student with a robust and systematic understanding of the contexts within which the Beatles and other 'Merseybeat' artists emerged

To develop the student as an autonomous researcher able to explore the historical and contemporary musical, social and industrial issues facing popular musicians such as the Beatles in the past and the present day and by doing so, to prepare for potential doctoral research

To develop expertise in the communication, analysis and evaluation of complex and underrepresented concepts in the interdisciplinary field of academic popular music studies

To allow students to show originality and distinctiveness in the recovery of partially hidden historical issues and marginalised narratives surrounding the Beatles, popular music and society

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