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New Zealand’s Otago Daily Times has posted an online piece regarding a course currently underway at the University of Otago: MUSI260 Special Topic: David Bowie
Here’s an edited excerpt from the article:
With Bowie turning 68 on January 8, senior executant lecturer in contemporary music, Dr Ian Chapman, and his class of 27 keen Bowie fans marked the occasion by singing their own Bowie-style version of Happy Birthday. It was a fun pause in an intensive six-week summer course covering the whole of David Bowie’s musical career, from the 1970s to the present day, as well as his wider impact on society. Dr Chapman said he was particularly excited by the interdisciplinary nature of David Bowie as an academic subject.
“As a figure of academic interest, David Bowie’s star has been rising internationally in recent years. We can have so many different approaches to him, from his music to film, gender, theatre, and fashion. To have this concentrated time with one body of students is a luxury. Over the course of this six weeks we will cover the whole of Bowie’s career – it’s a whistle-stop tour. This inaugural Summer School David Bowie paper has drawn students from across the university – not only music students – and a lot are Bowie fans.”
See a picture of Dr Ian Chapman with some of his students and read the full piece here,
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