Here’s a hot take for readers:

Kanye West, Chris Brown and Don Toliver are all terrible artists. 

Even though I don’t enjoy these artists’ work, music education has allowed me to appreciate their unique spin on hip-hop – a genre that offers a wide range of unique beats, style and feel.

But luckily USF’s new School of Music curriculum will introduce students to new music and artists – giving them the opportunity to formulate their own music taste.

The new curriculum will now include classes in rap, hip-hop, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence and creative collaboration. A Contemporary Commercial Music Concentration was also added alongside the new courses.

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This new curriculum is essential to broaden students’ horizons as it will teach them new genres, cultures and help them find the music that boosts their mental health.

David Williams, professor and director of the School of Music, does a fine job in explaining why music is subjective.

“There are lots and lots of different genres of music and there are lots of people in the world,” said Williams. “I think those two fit in really nicely because there’s music, such as certain genres and certain pieces of music, that speak to you that might not speak to me.”

Williams said it’s important for music majors to be extremely well versed in other genres of music as it opens up their possibilities as to what they play or compose.

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But other than music majors, it is especially important for students to find what kind of music speaks to them as it could be beneficial to their mental health. 

“There’s something about musical sound that just makes it important to [people], and we also have evidence of that,” said Williams.

Musical therapy even has its own field of study. According to the Mayo Clinic Health System, this form of treatment can help decrease anxiety and blood pressure and even elevate mood.

With the new curriculum offered in the School of Music, students are given the opportunity to decipher what music is important to them. 

It will give them the space to be more creative and indulge in new experiences that they may not have been given before.

“We help students be creative, meaning create new music,” said Williams. ”Hopefully, they do it with people that maybe, in the earlier curriculum, they would not have met necessarily.

Through the new curriculum, students will also be exposed to others with different musical backgrounds.

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If you’re an avid music listener like I am, it is pretty easy to stay stuck within your music genre. 

Through music education, I’ve been able to take myself out of my old song repeats by learning about new music that I now enjoy. 

While pop has easily been my favorite genre, I’ve become more musically diverse by trying genres I wouldn’t think to listen to at first glance.

But while listening to music from other genres is important, William shares it is also important to hear music from other cultures as well.

“Plus, I think we learned an awful lot from other cultures when we hear music that maybe we’re not so familiar with,” said Williams. “We learn a little bit about them through hearing the music that they make.”

Who knows, with the addition of a hip-hop class maybe more will finally see that Ye is the worst artist.