252W152732 ONLINE: ABBA: A Fifty-Year-Young Pop Phenomenon - C1 (NEU!)

Since 1974, the music of the Swedish band ABBA has fascinated generation after generation of music lovers. The textbook-English lyrics of their songs, filled with catchy phrases, have appealed to both Anglophone and non-Anglophone audiences. This course will help you improve your English listening comprehension and conversational skills by listening to and talking about the songs written and performed by Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Agnetha Fältskog. ABBA lives on not only through the memory of its dynamic disco beats stored on magnetic tapes and CDs, but also through its recently digitally revitalized live performances. Since May 2022, the band has been back on stage in the form of digital avatars, animated by state-of-art CGI at the ABBA Arena in London. More than half of today's fans filling the Arena was not even around in the 1970s, which in itself speaks for the undeniable power of music.