What Good Is A Songwriter?

Neale-Widdison, Anna (2019) What Good Is A Songwriter? . Songwriting Studies Project Blog. (KAR id:83993)

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Abstract

Recently I saw a post on Twitter from the songwriter Dan Wilson, asking the question; ‘what good is a songwriter today’? The post received 51 replies stating, amongst others, that a songwriter is a ‘truth teller’, a ‘flashback’ a ‘prophet’ or ‘bard’, someone who can put ‘feeling into words’ where others can’t. All wonderfully vivid. This post started a train of thought for me. In answering Dan’s question on Twitter I asked myself, can you separate the song and the songwriter, and if you do, what is the purpose of a songwriter? Especially in this day and age.

Item Type:	Internet publication
Uncontrolled keywords:	songwriting, songwriters
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Institutional Unit:	Schools > School of Arts and Architecture > Arts
Former Institutional Unit:	Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User:	Anna Neale Widdison
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2020 11:26 UTC
Last Modified:	20 May 2025 08:32 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/83993 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Neale-Widdison, Anna.

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