Hearing that everyone has one of these is reassuringπ«
@phebeeh
Music prof @ Binghamton University, romance novel enthusiast, pop and country music scholar, childless cat lady. Book on Taylor Swift out April 2025: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781493084722/Cranking-Up-Taylor-Swift-Her-Musical-Journey-in-11-Songs
Hearing that everyone has one of these is reassuringπ«
This! And the archives sometimes donβt know what they have until someone finds it randomly (looking at you, with so much love, Country Music Hall of Fame archive)
Nah I wrote something similar yesterday to a grad studentπ«£
In the wake of the new TS album, I keep thinking about the first time I presented on her at SocAmMusic, and got a comment along the lines of βis this too criticalβ when talking about how sheβs a bad white feminist, and white feminism is scary and harmful
Anyways⦠that work is published now.
You belong with meβ¦ is what Taylor Swift said to Travis Kelce. Celebrate their engagement with @phebeeh.bsky.socialβs βCranking Up Taylor Swift.β
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ππ #MusicSky @bloomsburymus.bsky.social
Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two. By @jonakimehta.bsky.social
Book is out so soon! And itβs also a good reminder to myself (and all of us) that the humanities and art are points of connection, and full of joyπ www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...
Reading a book for review and just learned John Prine was a Libra like me so itβll be a 5 star read no matter how the second half of the book is.
and the excellent oral history!!
Currently doing a last pass of copy editing when all I really wanna do is bake pieπ©
What I should be doing: working on copy edits
What Iβm actually doing: having Taylor swift dance party while I do copy edits making me take twice as long
(Iβm on chapter 5- 1989β¨π wishing id written about OOTW instead of blank space)
Also relevant (and will be shown in class, because girlhood is important ): www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKz...
Still giggling and kicking my little feet that the Jonas brothers and 1D are unironically on my US popular music syllabus because the teenagers of the 2000s were important ππ»ββοΈ
Tan and grey cat (named Madeleine) laying on a bed.
Big orange cat (named Alfredo) laying on a pink rug
First post is the most important fluffy friendsπ½