Maybe the Nobel committee should create a "songwriting" category to avoid this -- assuming such a category would make sense, depending as it does on the assumption that songs and poetry are indeed separate art forms, something which has yet to be established in the various discussions we are having here.
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Peter Riley Wrote:
As for Dylan. The trouble with opening a nomination of the highest eminence to a "low" songster is not a class or elitism affair, it is that once those gates are open there are at once many hundreds of lyricists in the same kind of business who are obviously just as eligible, as against the heroics which seem to be endemic to our inherited (sovereign) culture, the glorification of the supremo, THE ONE. The trouble is not who gets the Nobel or what for, the trouble is the existence of the Nobel.
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