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.
UC Berkeley offering new Taylor Swift course on her “enduring value”
nme.comTaylor Swift course next year.From 2024, students attending the California college will have the option to enlist in a Taylor Swift-centred course, which explores the business success of the pop star and her ability to create an enterprise out of her music.Set to be called Artistry and Entrepreneurship: Taylor’s Version, the course will be offered by the Berkeley Haas School of Business, and was developed by an economics graduate named Crystal Haryanto.It will be available from next Spring and will look at how the singer crafted her music and brand to resonate with listeners. “Swift’s ability to connect with listeners is unparalleled,” reads the syllabus (via The Guardian). “Through lyricism, branding, and craft, we’ll explore how art and authenticity create enduring value and a viable enterprise.”As well as designing the course, Haryanto will also co-teach alongside a current student.
Those who take the course can expect it to expand across 13 weeks and consist of interactive lectures, readings and listening assignments.“It will be a cross-section of literature, economics, business and sociology and I think that we’re studying her impact as an artist, as a whole,” Haryanto revealed when talking with NBC. “I want to study her literary devices.
But also how those literary devices create meaning.”It comes as little surprise that Taylor Swift will be at the centre of a college course, given the number of accolades that the singer has accumulated this year alone.
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