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Make room, Socrates, for Lady Gaga and Beyonce

In a music room in the quiet college campus, a group of students from notes scribbled in the dark, his eyes intent on a 10-minute video.It takes 30 seconds to collect his thoughts,'' said Amy Hamlin the class teacher as the video concluded. they

Then he launched into a discussion of postmodernism, film and religious symbolism. On the screen? 'Telephone' video with music by Lady Gaga Beyonce. The video product placement, prison scenes and murders groom are the focus of this course the University of Santa Catalina, entitled 'The Music and the monster image: Lady Gaga in context. "

Courses with a specific focus of pop culture that are increasingly populate academia. Another offering in the St. Paul school is "Six Degrees of Harry Potter." The University of St. Thomas has an honors seminar on the television series'','' The Wire. Georgetown University in Washington held a Jay-Z .