McCausland explains why she’s launching a Taylor Swift-inspired literature course at Belgium’s Ghent University this fall, while hip-hop historian Dalton Higgins details his experience teaching a Drake-themed course at Toronto Metropolitan University.
, which is not an easy word to say, I should say. You dig into a lot of these literary connections.… Can you elaborate on that a bit?: Yeah, absolutely. I think it all comes down to what we call intertextuality — when you have texts that refer to one another, [but] not necessarily directly. I would say Swift makes a lot of direct allusions to English literature in her work….
We talk about class issues. People position Drake as a sort of middle class rapper in a hip-hop community and society where we talk about its low income origins — the dispossessed, marginalized communities. That's not Drake's narrative; that was never his trajectory, right? So that's what I try to do in my class.: Elly, when your course was announced, a lot of people were kind of critical of the idea that Taylor Swift deserves all of this.
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