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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, renewing an old debate: Are pop lyrics poetry? (Lex Van Lieshout/European Pressphoto Agency) Michael Lindgren is a frequent contributor to The ...

Poetry & Song is a creative writing seminar specifically geared towards helping songwriters and composers better develop their lyrics. In this 4-hour seminar, participants can expect to be exposed to ...

Almost every duo, of course, has had their ups and downs, including Husnlal-Bhagatram (the oldest ones), Kalyanji-Anandji, Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Anand-Milind. And that was truer in recent times when ...

TWO WORLDS collided, making waves in the local music scene as Illovo Township poet, combined spoken word with hip-hop in a ...

Parents in the Florence Unified School District in Arizona had an icy response to a poetry lesson in an 8th grade class. The lesson used a music video and lyrics from an Ice Cube rap song. The 1990 ...