Country Music | Taylor Swift Scholar

Saint Stephen I just wrote you a paean: Signifier and signified in Hey Stephen

Swift, a philosopher of language, explores the relationship between a name and what it signifies by fully exploring the meaning of 'Stephen'

Swift's Theology of Noise Music in Our Song

In Our Song, noted music theorist Taylor Swift grapples with the question “What is Music?”

Should've Said Know: Swift's Socratic Masterpiece

Swift, a Platonic philosopher, transforms a story of infidelity into a brilliant illustration of the Socratic idea that Virtue = Knowledge.

A Penny for your Thoughts: Epistemology of the Self in Tied Together with a Smile

The Basics Taylor Swift addresses Tied Together with a Smile to a young woman who doesn’t know (oh-oh) that she’s beautiful. In the...

Two Roads Diverged in a TSwift Song: The Outside's Meta-Analysis of Robert Frost

The Basics On the surface, The Outside is the third in a trio of songs that use place as a device for exploring themes of loneliness....

Tim[e] McGraw: A Deconstruction of Music and Memory

Recap: Taylor Swift’s first song, Tim McGraw, uses a complex structure to reflect on whether past relationships stay in the past or live...

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