{"id":2253,"date":"2010-11-06T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T07:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2010-11-06T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T07:40:34","slug":"to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/06\/to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga\/","title":{"rendered":"To a degree&#8230;studying Lady GaGa ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/nov\/05\/lady-gaga-sociology-fame-degree\" target=\"_blank\">reported on The Guardian&#8217;s music blog yesterday<\/a>, it&#8217;s now possible to take a degree in&#8230; Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2257\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px;border: white 5px solid\" title=\"lady_gaga\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/11\/lady_gaga-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/11\/lady_gaga-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/11\/lady_gaga.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>The University of South Carolina is offering a degree entitled &#8216;Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame,&#8217; upon which presumably students can study aspects of the popstar&#8217;s persona, her publicity-driven lifestyle, and her impact on popular culture of the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Lady Gaga was recently voted the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/8653361.stm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;most influential artist of 2010&#8217;\u00a0in <em>Time<\/em> magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other artists who might merit their own degree ? Joni Mitchell ? Bob Dylan ? Miles Davis ? Did I mention Joni Mitchell ?<\/p>\n<p>Comments please!<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/06\/to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga\/&amp;t=To a degree...studying Lady GaGa ?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=To a degree...studying Lady GaGa ?%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/06\/to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/06\/to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/06\/to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga\/&amp;title=To a degree...studying Lady GaGa ?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/06\/to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga\/&amp;title=To a degree...studying Lady GaGa ?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported on The Guardian&#8217;s music blog yesterday, it&#8217;s now possible to take a degree in&#8230; Lady Gaga. The University of South Carolina is offering a degree entitled &#8216;Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame,&#8217; upon which presumably students can study aspects of the popstar&#8217;s persona, her publicity-driven lifestyle, and her impact on popular culture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/11\/06\/to-a-degree-studying-lady-gaga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To a degree&#8230;studying Lady GaGa ?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1310],"tags":[1462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}