Harry Styles University

Here’s a very interesting education and pop culture development, or shall I say merger … Texas State University in the US will be teaching a course about Harry Styles. Actually it’s about popular culture, artistic expression, celebrity, and social issues through the lens of Harry Styles and his career.

Amazing!

From the online magazine “Dazed” is this description …

The course – named “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture” – will explore “cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture and consumerism.”

Through his persona and his work, Harry Styles cares deeply about many of the social issues we face right now around gender, gender expression, acceptance, racism, kindness, etc. Lots of content to build an entire course around!

Amazing!

To me, this is a wow. It’s so important to learn how popular culture both shapes and reflects our world and what we care about and honestly what we want to change. It’s also a wow that Harry Styles has risen to this level of influence, tackling issues head on in his work. Authentically.

Which is why this will be such an amazing course of study. I want to go!

What’s your experience? JIM