Taylor Swift

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.

• ContentsList of Figures and Tables AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Star, The Songs, The FansChrista Anne Bentley, Kate Galloway, and Paula Clare HarperPart 1The StarChapter 1. Taylor Swift on Tour: Embracing Whiteness, Growing UpPhoebe E. HughesChapter 2. Stripped-Down Swift: Singer-Songwriter Performance Practice Within Swift’s BrandChrista Anne BentleyChapter 3. Taylor Swift Controls EverythingAnnelot 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 ProjectJocelyn R. Neal Part 2The SongsChapter 6. Lyrical World Building: An Exploration of Taylor Swift’s Use of Intratextuality and IntertextualityLauren Alex Hooper Chapter 7. “Write This Down”: Writing as Motif and Metaphor in Taylor Swift’s SongwritingNicky WatkinsonChapter 8. Between the Fairytale Fractures: Queering the Swiftian Country SongJames BarkerChapter 9. Register, Timbre, and Rhetoric in Two Duets by Taylor SwiftCameron SteuartChapter 10. Make It Old: (Taylor’s Version) and the Art and Experience of Re-creationChelsea 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 HeartbreaksAilsa 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 SwiftiesThiago Soares and Lianna GenuínoChapter 15. Hearing #Gaylor: Queer Musical (Conspiracy) Theorizing in the Internet AgePaula Clare HarperChapter 16. Make The Friendship Bracelets…On Your Own, Kid: Wispy Community in the Taylor Swift FandomGeorgia CarrollNotes on ContributorsIndex