Download MP3: Adler_WeAreABlueJaysFamily
My mother, Lisa, is the biggest Toronto Blue Jays fan I know. But her path to super-fandom, during the 2015 season, was an unconventional one. This episode will explore what makes a good fan, getting a “hat trick” in baseball, and a surprisingly resonant Blue Jays-themed parody of a Taylor Swift tune.
Jordan Z. Adler is a Ph.D. student and English instructor at UW-Milwaukee, who is interested in media representations of Jewishness. A native of Toronto, Canada, he has also worked as a freelance arts journalist and film/TV critic.
Links:
- “The Cultural Economy of Fandom,” by John Fiske. https://paas.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Fiske.pdf
- Toronto Blue Jays Memes (on Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/torontobluejaysmemes/?hl=en
- “First Place” (Blue Jays parody of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swZmk85s4-w