Max Gold
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Welcome to the second edition of A Brief History of Kanye. In this class, we will discuss the music, life and influence of Kanye West, one of today's most polarizing celebrities. We will journey chronologically through Kanye's life, analyzing his evolution as a person and as an artist; we will cover personal events that impacted Kanye’s music and how his albums and persona influenced hip hop and pop culture.
Each class will be split into two sections: half will be dedicated to discussion of Kanye’s album(s) and half will be focused on important events in music, pop culture, and Kanye’s life that happened before the next album(s). Classes will typically be from 5:00 - 6:00 PM in room 4-270 on Tuesdays and Thursdays during IAP. The tentative schedule is below with the first class on Thursday 1/10...
1/10: Welcome to Kanye
1/15: The College Dropout
1/17: Late Registration / Graduation
1/22: 808’s and Heartbreak
1/24: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
1/29: Yeezus / The Life of Pablo
1/31: Kanye in 2018 (5:00 - 6:30)
Since this was an eventful year for Kanye (to say the least), the schedule has changed from last year. Now, the final class will focus on the good and bad from Kanye’s life in 2018. Anyone who graduated last year with their degree in ye-ology is more than welcome to come back on 1/31 to discuss this new material.
If you are interested, please sign up here to get email updates and so I can get a sense of potential class size https://goo.gl/forms/RXa1iqhD1FCk0Ubh2.
Contact: Maxwell Gold, MPGOLD@MIT.EDU