{"product_id":"taylor-swift-the-star-the-songs-the-fans-paperback","title":"Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChrista Anne Bentley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKate Galloway\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePaula Clare Harper\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003ci\u003eTaylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans\u003c\/i\u003e positions Swift as a prismatic figure for the musical world of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding 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\u003cem\u003e--\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, popular culture, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, and sound studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChrista Anne Bentley\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKate Galloway \u003c\/b\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaula Clare Harper\u003c\/b\u003e researches music, sound, and the internet. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100545343795,"sku":"9781032289878","price":100.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/3bgFkwlMO79781032289878.webp?v=1772486205","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/taylor-swift-the-star-the-songs-the-fans-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}