In Sweet Music Is Such Art: Songs Inspired By Shakespeare, Covered In Folk
Teaching Romeo and Juliet to my inner-city ninth graders this past year was an uphill battle with multiple casualties, but I'm quite proud of how effective we found it to start outside the text, with a week-long exploration of pop and mass culture referents, the better to understand which elements of story and structure, character and cast we westerners are expected to retain into adulthood. Indeed, our very first day featured a side-by-side comparison of Taylor Swift's Love Story and Dire Straits Romeo & Juliet - perhaps the two most currently recognizable songs [...]
- Alice Ripley & Jesse Harris - Ariel (October Project cover)
- Chris Smither - Desolation Row
- Cliff Eberhardt - Romeo and Juliet
- David Scott Crawford - The King Must Die (Elton John cover)
- Dino Pehilj - Sister Moon (Sting cover)
- Eric Lumiere - Sigh No More (Mumford & Sons cover)
- Glen Phillips ft. Chris Thile - Exit Music (For a Film) (Radiohead cover)
- Igor Golovko - Sister Moon (Sting cover)
- Indigo Girls - Romeo and Juliet
- Maigin Blank - Exit Music (For A Film) (Radiohead Cover)
- Mark Erelli - Ophelia (The Band cover)
- Matt Ryd - Romeo And Juliet (Dire Straits cover)
- The Diamond Family Archive - Romeo And Juliet (Dire Straits cover)
- Tiffany Jo Allen - Love Story (Taylor Swift Cover)




















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