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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.

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From studio albums to stadium tours, Taylor Swift is a record-setting pop artist whose impacts are outsized and global in scale. At the same time, she has cultivated an audience base that finds her, her songs, and her voice eminently relatable. Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans positions Swift as a prismatic figure for the musical world of the 21st century.

This collection 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. Together, the essays evaluate Swift?s career with attention to how her work has resonated in a changing global society, how she has navigated shifts in the music industry, and how she has negotiated changes in her musical transition from country to pop along the lines of her age, gender, race, and class identity.

Including contributions by scholars, practitioners, and journalists, this book offers a serious consideration of one of today?s most popular music stars that shows why and how she matters. Engaging a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives?including fan studies, cultural studies, philosophy, musicology and music theory, journalism, and songwriting?Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, popular culture, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, and sound studies.

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables 

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Star, The Songs, The Fans

Christa Anne Bentley, Kate Galloway, and Paula Clare Harper

Part 1

The Star

Chapter 1. Taylor Swift on Tour: Embracing Whiteness, Growing Up

Phoebe E. Hughes

Chapter 2. Stripped-Down Swift: Singer-Songwriter Performance Practice Within Swift?s Brand

Christa Anne Bentley

Chapter 3. Taylor Swift Controls Everything

Annelot Prins

Chapter 4. The Mediated Natures of Taylor Swift in folklore and evermore

Kate Galloway

Chapter 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 2

The Songs

Chapter 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 Watkinson

Chapter 8. Between the Fairytale Fractures: Queering the Swiftian Country Song

James Barker

Chapter 9. Register, Timbre, and Rhetoric in Two Duets by Taylor Swift

Cameron Steuart

Chapter 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 Barna

Chapter 12. ?I Can?t Find a Pulse?: Encoding Sonic Intimacy in Heartbeats and Heartbreaks

Ailsa Lipscombe

Part 3

The Fans

Chapter 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. Avdeeff

Chapter 14. What Does Taylor Swift Have to Do With Soccer?: The Culture of Speculation in the Practices of Brazilian Swifties

Thiago Soares and Lianna Genuíno

Chapter 15. Hearing