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Taylor Swift: Eras, Narrative, Digital Media and Music
Deadline for proposals (250 words): 11:59pm EST March 31, 2021
Selection notification by April 15, 2021
Date: July 17, 2021

On February 11, 2021, pop star Taylor Swift announced the anticipated
re-release of her 2008 album Fearless, a project launched following the
contentious and public battle between Swift and her former label Big
Machine Records. While specific and noteworthy in its particulars, this
release also comprises one in a long series of re-visiting and
re-versioning of the star’s life and output by Swift, the media, her fans,
and her detractors. Listening to Swift's releases as artifacts of the
current digital age, this study day seeks to position Swift as a prism
through which to examine intersecting issues in contemporary music
industries and media ecosystems, from copyright and pandemic creation, to
multimedia star texts and digital fan practices.

Topics under consideration might include (but are not limited to):
The Swift Star Text: music, social media, music video, documentary
Copyright, intellectual property, and re-release
Pandemic production and release
Genre negotiation: country, pop, folk, indie
Identity: girlhood, whiteness
Swiftian songwriting, narrative, autobiography
Digital fandom discourse and practices
Engagements between digital and material fandom
Collaboration: producers, co-writing, and featured vocals

Please send 250-word abstracts and a short 100 word bio to pch9857 [at]
gmail.com by 31 March 2021 (11:59pm EST).

Organizers: Christa Anne Bentley (Oklahoma City University), Kate Galloway
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and Paula Harper (Washington University
in St. Louis)

This study day will take place virtually on 17 July 2021, from 9:00am to
7:00pm Eastern Standard time. Presenters will be notified of their
acceptance by 15 April 2021. Panel scheduling for speakers will strive to
accommodate time zone differences and child- and dependant-care needs.


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