Blog: music is art

THERE SEEMS to be no consensus on how Spoken Word should be interpreted in terms of music, and art. The high art world both embraces it and pushes it to one side, and simultaneously, the average music fan instinctively turns their nose up, in an air of reverse snobbery, at its pretentious efforts in pop music. Indeed while Harold Bloom of The Paris Review once heavily criticised the poetry slams that ran alongside the genre, 2009 saw America's First Family host the "Poetry, Music and Spoken Word" event, that was dominated by Spoken Word. Spoken word that attempts [...]

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