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S’wonderful: The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin

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It’s not uncommon for an artist to receive an award nomination posthumously; however, two nominations in the same year, for the same award, nearly thirty years after the artist’s death? That takes some serious staying power, power that the…
Langston Hughes

Unhook the Stars: The Lyrics of Langston Hughes

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Unhook the Stars: The Lyrics of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, born 110 years ago today, has been called "The Poet Laureate of Harlem" for his works depicting the everyday struggles and triumphs of the people of Harlem during the 1920s through…
Jim Morrison Poetry

Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison

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Lighting the Fire: The Poetry of Jim Morrison “The time to hesitate is through,/No time to wallow in the mire,/Try now we can only lose,/And our love becomes a funeral pyre.” These words, whose rhyme and meter evoke images of Byron,…

Lyricists: The Sung and the Unsung

Lyricists: The Sung and the Unsung Most people associate songwriting with the act of writing lyrics when, in fact, that is only one of element involved in writing a song. A songwriter is defined as “a person who writes the words or music…