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New York University’s Clive Davis Institute Launches New Course About Taylor Swift

For all the Swifties out there especially the ones that are planning on furthering their studies, it is time for you to be so excited because it is recently announced that a Taylor Swift Course has been officially launched at the New York University’s Clive Davis Institute. That is indeed such an amazing course to be joined by those who are really into it.

The Taylor Swift Course is actually for the 2022 Spring Semester. According to the detailed course description from the outlet clearly stated, “This course proposes to deconstruct both the appeal and aversions to Taylor Swift through close readings of her music and public discourse as it relates to her own growth as an artist and a celebrity”. So great.

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The Course Objectives

  1. Students will develop an understanding and appreciation for Taylor Swift as a creative music entrepreneur; Students will learn to deconstruct the way her creativity and songwriting have made her a durable presence in a quickly evolving music industry.
  2. Students will learn about the legacy of pop and country songwriters that have influenced Swift as well as the discourses around ‘prodigies’ in pop music history.
  3. Students will gain an understanding of how discourses of youth and girlhood are often exploited in the media and music industries.
  4. Students will learn about the politics of race in contemporary popular music, and interrogate whiteness as it relates to Swift’s politics, songwriting, worldview, and interactions with the wider cultural world around her.
  5. Students will develop greater sophistication in their artistic appreciation, critical thinking, research, and writing skills.

For those who are interested, the Taylor Swift course itself would be taught through the process of lectures, reading, talks, and many more that would be interesting. It would focus to analyze the culture and also the political sense of a teen girl that involves in fandom life, the culture of pop music that is always changing, studies of the media, and also the power that her image bring along with the images of those who come before and after the success that she brings. Other topics are also about ownership and copyright, the ongoing impact of social media, and American nationalism.

Sources: Variety, Billboard.

Adib Mohd

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