The Words and Music of Taylor Swift

This scholarly analysis of the music of Taylor Swift identifies how and why she is one of the early 21st century's most recognizable and most popular stars.

• Provides the only scholarly critical analysis of the songs and recordings of megastar Taylor Swift

• Places Swift, her work, and her public stances in the context of her generation and its definition of "empowerment" and "feminism"

• Explores Swift's work as an extension of the early 1970s' confessional singer-songwriter movement