I think a good book to see (& appreciate) the interesting interrelationships of 'song' and 'poetry' (going all the way back to Homer) is Gregory Nagy's Poetry as performance: Homer and beyond.
We're more indebted to this notion of "Homeric performance" than we think.
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I think a good book to see (& appreciate) the interesting interrelationships of 'song' and 'poetry' (going all the way back to Homer) is Gregory Nagy's Poetry as performance: Homer and beyond.
We're more indebted to this notion of "Homeric performance" than we think.
Thanks for the book recommendation, Conrad.
Homer to Hip-Hop.
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