cbspock
07-23-2002, 07:06 PM
Tammy Wynette Degree
-- Hey, who says book learnin' has to be dull? Lyrics sung by Tammy Wynette have helped a U.K. student get a first-class honors degree in geography and environmental management.
While her contemporaries looked at soil samples, Elaine Henderson, 22, studied the lyrics of 60 country songs to demonstrate the changing perceptions of women towards men since the 1970s, reports telegraph.co.uk.
Some of her best material came from Wynette's Run Woman Run, a song written from the point of view of an older woman giving advice to a younger woman who has left her man.
Henderson, of Blyth, Northumberland, explained: "In the 1980s, attitudes like that began to change and songs by the likes of Rosanna Cash showed a more liberated view of women. By the time the 1990s came around, Shania Twain had changed things completely.
Henderson admits that it had been "a gamble" to come up with such an unusual idea, but she is now considering doing a Masters degree.
And you think this country has gone nuts.
http://www.countrynation.com/
-- Hey, who says book learnin' has to be dull? Lyrics sung by Tammy Wynette have helped a U.K. student get a first-class honors degree in geography and environmental management.
While her contemporaries looked at soil samples, Elaine Henderson, 22, studied the lyrics of 60 country songs to demonstrate the changing perceptions of women towards men since the 1970s, reports telegraph.co.uk.
Some of her best material came from Wynette's Run Woman Run, a song written from the point of view of an older woman giving advice to a younger woman who has left her man.
Henderson, of Blyth, Northumberland, explained: "In the 1980s, attitudes like that began to change and songs by the likes of Rosanna Cash showed a more liberated view of women. By the time the 1990s came around, Shania Twain had changed things completely.
Henderson admits that it had been "a gamble" to come up with such an unusual idea, but she is now considering doing a Masters degree.
And you think this country has gone nuts.
http://www.countrynation.com/