PARROTHEAD STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON on
TIME AFTER ISLAND TIME

Produced by Paul Leslie and Jeff Pike

The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) offers one class
you never got to take in college. Recently, I had the chance to
visit UNCW to witness an honors course called Parrothead Studies.
This is not a joke. The class studies the phenomenon of Jimmy
Buffett fandom as a form of leisure studies...and that's no
oxymoron. This officially credited class has garnered a lot of
attention from musicians, Parrot Heads, the founder of PHIP (Scott
Nickerson) and Jimmy Buffett, so I had to see what it was all about.

It was certainly worth the trip, and I stuck around after class and
got to interview the professors of the class for an article which
appeared in Jimmy Buffett's Coconut Telegraph newsletter. Along with
some music to get your neurons pumping, their Professor Dan Johnson
and Professor Candy Ashton, self-professing Parrot Heads themselves,
reflect on the academic study of Parrot Heads. This will be a hoot,
but we are afraid Alice Cooper was wrong... School is in fact, not
out for summer.

Paul Leslie

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