Saturday, November 19, 2016

Is "Is Blowin in the Wind", literature?

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The Noble Prize for literature in 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan for "having created new poetic expression within the great American song tradition". 

Harpers Magazine says that “literary means not only what is written but what is voiced, what is expressed, what is invented, in whatever form".  More restrictively, it is writing considered as an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.

Is "Blowin in the Wind" literature? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4nVByCL44 


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