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re: literate music
Hi
> So, my question to this list is this- who or what are the most
literate
> performers you can think of, and what works do they reference?
Good question. I hate to use superlatives because I will always come up
with
something better later. But Elvis Costello does some literary
referencing.
Juliet Letters has several R&J references. "Poor Fractured Atlas", I'm
assuming
is supposed to conjure the guy from greek myth.
Mancy A'lan Kane (speaking of obscure christian artists... paper moon
was
fabulous. I don't know what happened to her after that) had that song
"Camelot"
which references either Camelot or Anne of Green Gables or both. I
don't know.
I love recognizing literary references in other art. That was part of
the fun
of reading Brave New World (although that was a little cheezy, the whole
shakespeare thing. What really got me about that book, though, was the
way
Huxley played so fast and loose with style and pacing. It was crazy.
Wrote a
paper about it, I think... but I digress...)
Literature is cool. Music is cool.
Bethany
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