Taylor Swift’s Educational Legacy: A Harvard Perspective

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The first works of art that I cared about deeply and thoroughly,

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enough to write about them at stultifying length, were songs: Broadway songs, pop songs, 80s rock songs.

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14-year-old me wished she could be a singer-songwriter.

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 Fortunately, I didn’t have the vocal chops. Or the piano chops.

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So I became a 1990s fanzine writer, and then a literary critic,

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writing about the art forms that used only words — poems, essays and novel

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while spending way too much of my free time keeping track of my favorite songs and bands.

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