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And should novels be eligible for songwriting awards?

• CPLX 10y ago
  If they have a tune and you can dance to them.
• irb 10y ago
  I think the contention is that lyrics and novels are non-overlapping subsets of literature.
• Veen 10y ago
  Most early poetry was sung, and we're fine with calling that literature. Calling Dylan's work poetry does step over some normative lines, but they're fairly arbitrary lines. I know you were being sarcastic, but your comparison isn't really apt. Novels are not a lyric medium: they're prose. Song lyrics are lyrics set to music. Some poetry is "lyrics" without the music (although lyric poetry is not quite the same thing).
• mikeash 10y ago
  Songwriting clearly doesn't include novels. Literature includes both, and more.
• cooper12 10y ago
  Spoken word does exist. You're just drawing up arbitrary lines when in real life boundaries between media and genre aren't so distinct.