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Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans includes new work from interdisciplinary scholars who focus on Swift's star persona; the lyrics, themes and meanings of Swift's songs; and the ways that fans interact with Swift's work and with each other.
List of contents
ContentsList of Figures and Tables AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Star, The Songs, The Fans
Christa Anne Bentley, Kate Galloway, and Paula Clare HarperPart 1The StarChapter 1. Taylor Swift on Tour: Embracing Whiteness, Growing Up
Phoebe E. HughesChapter 2. Stripped-Down Swift: Singer-Songwriter Performance Practice Within Swift's Brand
Christa Anne BentleyChapter 3. Taylor Swift Controls Everything
Annelot PrinsChapter 4. The Mediated Natures of Taylor Swift in
folklore and
evermoreKate GallowayChapter 5. "That's Why You Have to Stream the Re-Records:" Copyright, Messaging, and Fan Engagement in Taylor Swift's Re-Recording Project
Jocelyn R. Neal Part 2The SongsChapter 6. Lyrical World Building: An Exploration of Taylor Swift's Use of Intratextuality and Intertextuality
Lauren Alex Hooper Chapter 7. "Write This Down": Writing as Motif and Metaphor in Taylor Swift's Songwriting
Nicky WatkinsonChapter 8. Between the Fairytale Fractures: Queering the Swiftian Country Song
James BarkerChapter 9. Register, Timbre, and Rhetoric in Two Duets by Taylor Swift
Cameron SteuartChapter 10. Make It Old: (Taylor's Version) and the Art and Experience of Re-creation
Chelsea Burns Chapter 11. Revision, Extension, and Repetition: Analyzing Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)"
Alyssa BarnaChapter 12. "I Can't Find a Pulse": Encoding Sonic Intimacy in Heartbeats and Heartbreaks
Ailsa LipscombePart 3The FansChapter 13. "Say It in a Tweet, That's a Cop-Out": Problematizing the Journalistic Practice of Using Tweets as Public Opinion through an Exploration of Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down"
Melissa K. AvdeeffChapter 14. What Does Taylor Swift Have to Do With Soccer?: The Culture of Speculation in the Practices of Brazilian Swifties
Thiago Soares and Lianna GenuínoChapter 15. Hearing #Gaylor: Queer Musical (Conspiracy) Theorizing in the Internet Age
Paula Clare HarperChapter 16. Make The Friendship Bracelets...On Your Own, Kid: Wispy Community in the Taylor Swift Fandom
Georgia CarrollNotes on ContributorsIndex
About the author
Christa Anne Bentley is a musicologist who studies the intersections of folk and popular song through the singer-songwriter movement. She is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Arkansas.
Kate Galloway is Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research addresses how and why contemporary artists remix and recycle sounds, music, and texts encoded with environmental knowledge and the creative and social phenomena of internet music communities and practices of listening to the internet.
Paula Clare Harper researches music, sound, and the internet. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.
Summary
Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans includes new work from interdisciplinary scholars who focus on Swift’s star persona; the lyrics, themes and meanings of Swift’s songs; and the ways that fans interact with Swift’s work and with each other.
