Because I use pop lyrics in my poems and review records for SPIN and elsewhere, people sometimes ask me whether I think of song lyrics as poetry. Looked at in certain ways, they obviously are; in ...

Thirty years ago, during my second year of teaching humanities at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (1985-86), I created an elective two-semester course called “Lyric” that began with ...

Now almost 40 years old, rap burst out of the Bronx to become one of the dominant musical and cultural forces in this country. A new book, The Anthology of Rap, tracks the development of the genre -- ...

But, drippily evangelical though I am about the Mancunian misery-guts, I was surprised last week to read that an academic has pronounced him a poet to rank with Philip Larkin. Dr Gavin Hopps, a ...

Shailendra's lyrics exhibit the ability to stretch from the reflective to the hopeful, from the touching to the rallying, all ...

Young Thug’s legal team asked a judge to not allow song lyrics to be used as evidence in the YSL RICO trial. Young Thug’s lawyers filed a motion to prevent prosecutors from using his lyrics and ...

It’s that rare, beautiful week of the year when two of the nation’s best indie artistes have new albums out: Ten Stories by Shillong-based Soulmate and The Scene by Bangalore-based Thermal and a ...

Kris Kristofferson was one of country music’s greatest songwriters, and he’ll be missed for that talent among others. To celebrate Kristofferson’s legacy, let’s take a look at just a few of his lyrics ...

Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize has reignited the debate about whether song lyrics can ever be considered literature. Is it time to finally tear down these cultural barriers? Every now and then an esteemed ...

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