Alison Cries, "Oh, Atlanta..." (A Look into the Lyrics)
Well, happy New Year everyone! I hope you all have been abole to start 2006 the way you wanted to and that life is treating you all perfectly. Today, I was sitting in the lecture and thinking about the use of poetry in drama (according Professor Kuin's lecture), then my mind began to wander from drama to the stage and the stage to music and then
( Read more... )
Comments 1
I see where you’re coming from and I guess where you’re going with the idea that poetry has shaped music and the music industry. While reading your blog I thought about the rap industry and how they have incorporated poetry into to help define their lyrics. Though much of the up and coming artists have simple rhymes in there music, I feel that the artist prior where very passionate about the issues that affected them and they were able to express there concerns in a very poetic manner. The only artist currently doing this maybe just be Kanye West.
Poetry has grown, and is seen in the music industry through the stresses and emphasis in the lyrics of passionate and not so passionate artists. It’s all about what catches the audiences and what gets stuck in people’s heads; and easy to remember rhyming verses are catchy; and because of that it will be influential in music.
Shali
Reply
Leave a comment