Feanor Posted November 27, 2023 Posted November 27, 2023 Quote After making her way onto several college syllabi in recent years, Harvard University has become one of the latest institutions to offer a course on the 12-time Grammy Award winner, with the English Department's "Taylor Swift and Her World" making its debut from professor Stephanie L. Burt. According to the Harvard Crimson, the syllabus will include "deep dives into Swift's lyrics, music, and influence, dissecting her catalog and reading a host of authors Burt finds relevant to understanding Swift's artistry." Quote Burt's course at Harvard, per the Harvard Crimson, will dive into how Swift's work intersects with the literary canon, with reading that includes William Wordsworth and Willa Cather. Quote Other schools offering classes on Swift, Swifties, and culture include Ghent University in Belgium, the University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Berklee College of Music, the University of California at Berkeley, Arizona State, New York University, and Stanford. Entertainment Weekly & The Messenger 2 1 1
TaylorNation Posted November 27, 2023 Posted November 27, 2023 “Taylor Swift and Her World” whew I wonder what OTH will be able to say now since this is, you know, THEE Harvard 1
Rune Posted November 27, 2023 Posted November 27, 2023 Thank you, Beyoncé professor, for paving the way by faking it til you made it 1 1 1
Lille Posted November 27, 2023 Posted November 27, 2023 Harvard, Stanford, Berklee, Cal, Rice, Ghent, NYU... A who's who of the most revered academic institutions in the world acknowledging and chronicling the career of the most successful female artist of all time. 9 1
midnightdawn Posted November 27, 2023 Posted November 27, 2023 Imagine getting into Harvard and choosing to study Taylor Swift 12 2
poki Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 Classes on Swifties? The ****? I stan her but I don't associate myself as one.
Rep2000 Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 3 hours ago, Rune said: Thank you, Beyoncé professor, for paving the way by faking it til you made it And what happened to him btw? Last time I heard he lost it and still arguing with stans on twitter till this day. 1
spree Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 3 hours ago, midnightdawn said: Imagine getting into Harvard and choosing to study Taylor Swift I bet it's only 1 credit, kinda like a gym class or choir.
popmusicisdead Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, midnightdawn said: Imagine getting into Harvard and choosing to study Taylor Swift Taylor Swift, shaping the minds of the future Starbucks baristas of America. no one's doing it like her Edited November 28, 2023 by popmusicisdead
madonnafan18 Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 Eventually, these colleges are going to offer a MAJOR in Taylor Swift.
poki Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 It's really sad how institutions don't teach about Madonna or Janet and the barriers they broke, the mistreatment they got. 4
Rep2000 Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 59 minutes ago, popmusicisdead said: Taylor Swift, shaping the minds of the future Starbucks baristas of America. no one's doing it like her Only ATRLer thinks that someone who got into Harvard would be a Starbucks barista later
Feanor Posted November 28, 2023 Author Posted November 28, 2023 10 hours ago, Lille said: Harvard, Stanford, Berklee, Cal, Rice, Ghent, NYU... A who's who of the most revered academic institutions in the world acknowledging and chronicling the career of the most successful female artist of all time.
Klein Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 Quote According to the Harvard Crimson, the syllabus will include "deep dives into Swift's lyrics, music, and influence, dissecting her catalog and reading a host of authors Burt finds relevant to understanding Swift's artistry." Tell me your songwriting is legendary without telling me your songwriting is legendary. In Harvard no less. 1
Bosque Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, spree said: I bet it's only 1 credit, kinda like a gym class or choir. 5 hours ago, HASHTAGPOW said: Chapter 6 Lesson 3: Choreography It's a regular Lecture class in the English department, so I'm not sure why you would expect choreography to be a part of it. Harvard does have an Arts faculty that includes their Dance classes Quote The first song on Taylor Swift's first record, released when she was 16, paid homage (by name) to a more established country artist. Today she's the most recognizable country-- or formerly country? or pop?-- artist in North America, if not the world: her songwriting takes in half a dozen genres, and her economic impact changes cities. We will move through Swift's own catalogue, including hits, deep cuts, outtakes, re-recordings, considering songwriting as its own art, distinct from poems recited or silently read. We will learn how to study fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, adulthood and appropriation; how to think about white texts, Southern texts, transatlantic texts, and queer subtexts. We will learn how to think about illicit affairs, and hoaxes, champagne problems and incomplete closure. We will look at her precursors, from Dolly Parton to the Border Ballads, and at work about her (such as the documentary "Miss Americana"). And we will read literary works important to her and works about song and performance, with novels, memoirs and poems by (among others) Willa Cather, James Weldon Johnson, Tracey Thorn, and William Wordsworth. Quote According to Burt, Swift engages with the literary canon, sometimes directly naming influences and muses in her music. For example, in her song “The Lakes” she sings the line “tell me what are my Wordsworth” in reference to the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. To Burt, Swift’s lyrics are an open invitation to discover these cultural touchstones. She understands Swift to be saying, “If you want to understand me better, and my time in England better, maybe you should go read some Wordsworth,” Burt says. Through her course, Burt asserts that this influence on politics and culture is worthy of study and analysis. After all, students will spend at least one paper delving into “the songwriting, singing, performance, or life and career of Taylor Swift.” “We are lucky enough to be living in a time when one of our major artists is also one of the most famous people on the planet,” Burt says. “Why would you not have a course on that?” Because of Swift’s widespread popularity, Burt expects the course will have wide engagement. “I could probably teach extraordinarily niche courses that four people would take,” Burt adds. “I don’t want to do that.” Most of all, Burt hopes this course will speak personally to Harvard students. “Taylor Swift is a good way to think about what it’'s like to have a lot of eyes on you and to wonder what you do with your privilege,” Burt says. “To look around and ask, ‘I’m pretty ambitious and I got to this place when I was pretty young. What do I do next? What do I do with all this attention?’” Edited November 28, 2023 by Dephira
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted November 28, 2023 ATRL Moderator Posted November 28, 2023 10 hours ago, Lille said: Harvard, Stanford, Berklee, Cal, Rice, Ghent, NYU... A who's who of the most revered academic institutions in the world acknowledging and chronicling the career of the most successful female artist of all time. This class is about Taylor Swift, not Madonna. 1 1
Britney Spears Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 (edited) The artistry in question Edited November 28, 2023 by Britney Spears 2 3
Klein Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, Britney Spears said: The artistry A quick Google search to discover where that painting is from... a new low.
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