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Author Perone, James E., author.

Title The words and music of Taylor Swift / James E. Perone
Published Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 119 pages)
Series The Praeger singer-songwriter collection
Praeger singer-songwriter collection.
Contents Introduction -- Overview of Taylor Swift's Life, Career, and Impact -- Organization of This Book -- Becoming Fearless -- The Early Years -- Taylor Swift -- Fearless -- The "Mean" Era -- Spark Now -- Red -- 1989 and Beyond -- 1989 -- Beyond Music -- The Singer or the Song? -- Conclusions: A Woman of Her Time -- Social Media and Technology -- Empowerment and Feminism
Summary This analysis of Taylor Swift's music critically examines all of the young artist's works to date. The book's organization is primarily chronological, covering Taylor Swift's album and single releases in order of release date while also documenting the elements of her music and personality that have made her popular with fans of country music and pop music across a surprisingly diverse age-range of listeners. The chapters address how Swift's songs have been viewed by some fans as anthems of empowerment or messages of encouragement. The final chapter places Swift's work and her public persona in the context of her times with respect to her use of and relationship with technology - for example, her use of social media and songwriting technology - and her expressions of a new type of feminism that is unlike the feminism of the 1970s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 12, 2017)
Subject Swift, Taylor, 1989- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Swift, Taylor, 1989- fast
Subject Country music -- 2001-2010 -- History and criticism
Popular music -- United States -- 2011-2020 -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Country music
Popular music
Music.
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017010760
ISBN 9781440852954
1440852952
9798216168027