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The Dichotomy of Spontaneous Familiarity: Reviewing The Jay Leno Show
The Dichotomy of Spontaneous Familiarity Reviewing The Jay Leno Show Spontaneity is not Jay Leno’s forte. That’s really the whole point of Leno’s appeal, at the end of the day – people tuned in at...
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Saturday Night Live –“November 7th, 2009 – Taylor Swift”
“Taylor Swift” November 7th, 2009 There was one question on everyone’s mind when it comes to Taylor Swift’s hosting stint on Saturday Night Live: Kanye. It’s really the only thing of any note, and to...
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A Sales Spectacular: The Honest Quest for “Buzz” at the 2010 Grammys
When the Jay Leno Show was first pitched by NBC, they claimed that it would be so topical that people wouldn’t dare tape it on their DVRs out of fear of missing something important. This was, of...
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Erasing Herself From The Narrative: Taylor Swift and the absence of intimacy...
Beginning in 2010 with Speak Now, Taylor Swift album releases have been an “event”: in an age where prominent artists often struggle to clear 200,000 units in their opening weeks, Swift’s last three...
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No One Made Her Do This: The Trouble With Taylor Swift Tix
When Taylor Swift debuted her new single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” it came with an intriguing link to “ticket info.” And so while I was listening to the single, I started digging around on Swift’s...
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Look What She Made Me Do: Notes on my scholarly journal article about Taylor...
This week, I’m thrilled to say that Communication, Culture and Critique has published my article “From ‘Mine’ to ‘Ours’: Gendered Hierarchies of Authorship and the Limits of Taylor Swift’s Paratextual...
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Morphology of her folklore: Song, Story, and the Contradictions of Taylor Swift
When my journal article about Taylor Swift’s articulation of authorship during her transition from country to pop was held up in editorial for a lengthy period (a not uncommon occurrence in academic...
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