University to launch course about Harry Styles

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Harry Styles on stage in Manchester
Harry Styles on stage in Manchester
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A university in the US is offering a course on Harry Styles. Texas State University Honors College will run a course entitled “Harry Styles and the cult of celebrity: identity, the internet, and European pop culture”. It will focus on the former One Direction heartthrob and popular European culture “to understand the 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”. The Telegraph noted that US universities have previously offered courses on Lady Gaga, Kanye West and Beyoncé.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.