Over the past 15 geezerhood or so , Taylor Swift has proven herself prison term and again as one of the euphony industry ’s most talented entertainers and a pioneer of self - protagonism . Now , a new course offered by the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University ’s Tisch School of the Arts will search every facet of her still - arise legacy .
AsVarietyreports , the course is instruct by Brittany Spanos , an NYU graduate andRolling Stonestaff author who ’s been covering Swift for years . It was also Spanos ’s mind in the first place .
“ She ’s a Taylor rooter but she also understands how to contextualize her culturally , and get students to think more profoundly about her and her music through the lens of gender , feminist movement , race , and division , and other categories related to identity , and that deeper thinking is what this program is all about , ” Davis Institute hot seat ( and one of Spanos ’s former prof ) Jason King toldVariety .
Like every international superstar , Swift has a monumental , extremely devoted fanbase — Swifties — as well as a detail of detractors . The class will examine each side , “ [ deconstructing ] both the collection and aversions to Taylor Swift through close reading of her music and public treatment , ” harmonize to the class description . student will also take how other daddy and rural area songwriters have inspired her ; how she ’s stick around relevant and successful as the music landscape has deepen ; and what role the political relation of whiteness and teenaged maidenhood have played in her vocation .
The course start out on January 26 and will wrap up March 9 . As for whether it ’ll feature a client lecture by Swift herself , that ’s still unresolved — she has n’t respond to the invitation yet .
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