Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Calling all Swifties! New York University launches new course about Taylor Swift and the singer is invited
us.hola.comNew York University has officially launched a new course focused on Taylor Swift, just in time for spring semester.As part of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, the course will run from January 26 to March 9, and students can expect to learn more about the singer’s career and her cultural influence.
The star has also been invited to speak to the class.“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,” the course description reads.Among the different topics that will be discussed in this course, NYU has proposed to dive into Taylor’s entrepeneurial skills, her cultural impact from the start of her career, and her relevance in the music industry.Taught by Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos, the course will cover “topics like copyright and ownership, American nationalism and the ongoing impact of social media on the pop music industry.”“Through readings, lectures and more, the class delves into analyses of the culture and politics of teen girlhood in pop music, fandom, media studies, whiteness and power as it relates to her image and the images of those who have both preceded and succeeded her.”“It’s such an honour to be able to share my Swiftie expertise with a sharp group of students,” Spanos shared, adding that “teaching a course at Clive Davis has been a dream of mine since I attended NYU.”.
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