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Sep 2024
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Taylor Swift Decoded with Pop Music Jour...

CHELSEY WEBER-SMITH
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Brittany Spanos is a senior writer for Rolling Stone Magazine who has taught a course at NYU called Topics in Recorded Music: Taylor Swift, which analyzes "the culture and politics of teen girlhood in pop music, fandom, media studies, whiteness and power as it relates to her image." Today we are talking about conspiracy theories that come from within the har ... Show More
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