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 ...

Poetry and song were originally the same art. In the ancient world, all poetry was sung or chanted. Indeed, it was often ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

By ITZEL LUNA Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician’s “first love.” The ...

SINGAPORE – Tucked away on the third floor of a building along Syed Alwi Road, some 400 migrant workers in Singapore gathered on Sunday (Jan 07) for an evening of song, dance and poetry. Believed to ...

A Florida woman is refusing to give up on her claim that Taylor Swift copied her poems for some of her hit songs. Kimberly ...