Abstract
This article considers Liverpool Hope University’s Master of Arts degree in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society — which was the world’s first academic degree specifically related to the study of the Beatles — through reflective investigation into its structure, pedagogy and foundation in popular music studies. Using the writer’s own experiences as a both a graduate of and lecturer for the programme, the article considers the validity of academic study of the Beatles, the appropriateness of the MA’s approaches to this study and the usefulness of these for current and future Beatles scholarship. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.
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