WASHINGTON (August 14, 2025)- Taylor Swift has officially announced her new album “The Life of a Showgirl” during her guest appearance on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast Wednesday. The album is set to be released October 3rd with a total of twelve songs.
For additional context and analysis on Taylor Swift’s new album, please consider Gayle Wald, is a professor of English at the George Washington University. Wald is an interdisciplinary scholar of African American literature and popular music, a cultural historian as well as a cultural theorist. She has published three books, "It's Been Beautiful": Soul! and Black Power Television (Duke UP, 2015), Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Beacon, 2007), and Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in U.S. Literature and Culture (Duke UP, 2000). Wald has also authored a variety of articles, essays, and journalistic pieces about literature, popular music (from boy bands to punk rock to Motown to gospel), and visual media. Wald is a former recipient of two NEH Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has served as co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and currently serves as an editor of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series of books about popular recordings.
To speak with Professor Wald, please contact Skyler Sales at skylers
gwu [dot] edu (skylers[at]gwu[dot]edu).
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