Taylor Swift : Culture, Capital, and Critique (Paperback)

Introduction: Why Taylor? On Taylor Swift as the Anti-Hero, We Need 1. Swifties: The Politics and Productivity of Fandom 1: Taylor-Made Learning: Fan Labour, Skill Development and Celebrity Interaction in the Taylor Swift Affinity Space 2: Building Less Toxic Fandoms: Lessons from Online Community Architecture and Management 3: “Taylor Was Here”: Swifties in Sports Fandom and Diverse Fans Reclaiming Space in the Stands ? Kasey Symons ?4: Filipino Swifties and Pop Culture Activism in the New Marcos Era 2. Reading Swift: Gender, Femininity, Feminism 5: The Power of the Intimate: Autoethnographic Reflections on Intimate Connections with Taylor Swift 6: “Miss Americana” and South Korea’s “Little Sister”: The Gendered Familial/National Celebrities of Taylor Swift and IU ? Jiyoung Lee 7: Taylor Swift’s Tortured (Internet) Poetry: Millennial Life Writing, Internet Culture, and Feminist Autotheory 8: Snakes and Stones Can Break Bones: Taylor Swift, Online Violence and the Law 9: Taylor Swift and the Limits of Neoliberal Postfeminist Friendship ? Emma Whatman 3. Swift Dispossession: Questions of Whiteness and Colonialism 10: Taylor Swift’s Influence on Southeast Asian Swifties’ Socio-Political Activism 11: Cultural (Re)Colonisation in Asia Through the Lens of Taylor Swift 12: Taylor Swift, White Possession, and Colonial Discourse in Popular Music 4. Queering Swift: Queer Readings vs Lavender Capitalism 13: Monsters and Mad Women: A Queer Gothic Reading of Taylor Swift 14: Absent Analysis, Heteronormative Biopolitics, and “Lavender (Haze) Capitalism” in Swiftian Lore 15: Taylor (Sheesh)’s Version: Recreating and Co-Creating Taylor Swift Through Filipino Drag and Fandom Participation 5. Swift as “Event”: Music, Cities, Communities 16: She Had This Big, Wide City All to Herself: Taylor Swift and Non-Economic Legacies in a Time of Music Sector Crisis in Melbourne 17: What Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Can Teach Us About Cyber Attacks? 18: Is Taylor Swift a NUMTOT? Lyrical Representations of Public Transport and the Car 19: The Taylor Swift Paradox: A New Form of Blockbuster Artist Redefining the Indie

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