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Discussion:
Form im chosen
- The form we have chosen to focus on in our podcast is going to vary based on rhyme and meter. Other components it relies on include the section of performance poetry, specifically poetry in music.
A poet or artist I’m researching
- We are planning to research a few people of influence for the radio show. Some of those people include Patti Smith, Lauryn Hill, Bob Dylan, or Joni Mitchell. We are still narrowing down the specifics.
2 influential ideas about form
- Two influential ideas about form we are focusing on are overlapping and difference. Form can overlap and intersect when reading/singing and form can also differ based on meter.
For of podcast
- Our podcast will be co/conversational style.
2 resources
- (Lauryn Hill — Def Poetry Jam- Motives and Thoughts)
-(Patti Smith — The People Have The Power (Poem) (Later Archive 1996))
2 guiding questions
- Does overlapping and intersecting beats and rhythms add to a song more or less?
- How does one artist’s meter and beat differ from another?
- How does meter differ when reading vs singing a poem?
- How much can we learn about an artist based off of their choice of rhythm and meter?
- What is conventional music poetry form and how do artists use it and how do they contradict it?
2 things our audience may learn
Two things our audience may learn are that reading the lyrics of a song can be perceived differently than hearing it is sung with music and that most musicians start as poets before becoming turning to music, such as Patti Smith
Outline:
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Beginning:
Performance poetry is a very influential type of poetry that contains very many forms. Today we are going to be talking about a specific form called poetry and music. Within poetry music there are a lot of Genres. The genre we are going to be focusing on today is folk rock. There are many influential folk rock artists throughout time. But there’s a difference between musical artists and Poets. We are going to make that distinction today through our discussion.
Key points:
- Songs typically have a certain form that they confide to. We are going to be looking at songs that defy these typical rules songs will typically have an abcb rhyme scheme. When reading these songs that defy the stereotypical Norm of the form a song should have it’s hard to accurately depict how the artist intended the piece to sound.
- Patti Smith is a rock artist but before she was a rock artist she was a poet. She practiced performance poetry informs other than poetry music but rather spoken word poetry and slam poetry. She is an example of an artist that Rebels against the typical formative rules of the abcb rhyme scheme. Her music is also not very uniform. she’ll have drastic changes in her rhythm and melodies to create unsettling and unsatisfying vibes within her music.
- A poem can change so much depending on who is reading it. Every single time that a poem is red it is considered a performance. If I were to read the words of someone else’s writing I may put emphasis on different words, and capitalize on different sentences or phrases than the author intended when writing a piece. This is a difference within the Rhythm and meter of the poetry.
End: In conclusion, poetry music is a form in performance poetry that capitalizes on the defiance of typical form within songwriting. There are many influential songwriters out there. However, Patti Smith is a poet and a songwriter who managed to rebel against stereotypical forms in writing throughout her career and make art every time she played or spoke.
Rough Notes:
Potential Artists:
- Lauryn Hill
- Motives and thoughts — spoken poem
- Patti Smith
- The People Have The Power — spoken poem
- Land: Horses — song
- Lana Del Rey
- Happy — written poem
- Jeff Buckley
- Lover you should’ve come over — song
- My New Years Eve Prayer — written poem
- Joni Mitchel
- Circle game — song
- Big yellow taxi — song
Potential genres of music:
- Hip hop
- Folk
- Rock
