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Course in Lady Gaga offered at US university

STUDENTS at a US university are being offered a course in the pop singer Lady Gaga.

Mathieu Deflem, a sociology professor at the University of South Carolina, is adding a course title “Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame”.

The synopsis for the course reads: “The central objective is to unravel some of the sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga”.

Prof Deflem, 48, who has met the singer, real name Stefani Germanotta, on a number of occasions, said: “We’re going to look at Lady Gaga as a social event. Other people say that Gaga’s the new Madonna. I see it more like there’s people who have this very individual thing. Frank Zappa had it. Prince had it. Miles Davis had it. Jimi Hendrix had it. And Lady Gaga has it.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .