circular works
I am curious as to what works of music, literature refer to themselves or to their authors/songwriters/singers?I can think of a few pop songs, tho I am hazy on the details. One is "Cleopatra's Song"...
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Bo Diddley springs to mind, Dr John the Night Tripper, I`ll be back with more after this short break.
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Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"?IIRC, George Harrison had a song called "This Song"; Elton John and Bernie Taupin had one called "This Song Has No Title" and also one whose lyics go "You can tell...
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> Elton John and Bernie Taupin had one called "This Song> Has No Title" and also one whose lyics go "You can tell> everybody/This is your song" but the name of which> escapes me at the...
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OK, maybe my explanation wasn't clear. A zillion songs are about "me", "you", "we", etc; but the part about THIRD PERSON is key here. I was wondering about some song where a person is ODING...
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Moliere often used this technique. He'd have the players say in the "Hypochrondriac" (alternative title: "The Imaginary Invalid") "that guy Moliere writes plays which attack medicine and doctors," and...
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Not to be dismissive of the examples provided so far, of course. In fact, I think Larry Sanders' theme song is pretty close to what I meant.And it truly was the best theme song ever. You've inspired...
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BTW, if you're interested in self-reference, the aforementioned _Goedel, Escher, Bach_ is *the* thing to read.
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There must be a million self-referential jazz songs. Certainly you have Charlie "Yardbird" Parker playing Yardbird Suite and Bird's Nest. You have Thelonious "Sphere" Monk playing Blue Monk. I'd be...
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Anyone have a source for that Cohen article, by any chance?Thanks (belatedly) to MI in particular for the great Moliere examples.
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You have the citation, which gives the magazine, month and year. It's a major magazine, which any large municipal or college library would probably have bound or microfilmed back issues of. Have you...
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There are whole loads of 'em in the R&B, blues, and soul music categories. Offhand --just at the tip of my brain:Bo Diddley, who has already been mentioned, is probably the all-time leader, but...
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Hank Williams, Jr. has forged the better part of a career out of singing songs about his sinted father, most of which complain rather bitterly about how he resents the way people always associate him...
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Billie Holiday wrote and sang "Billies's Blues". Does this count as part of your self-referential works collection?CunningLinguist, for some reason, I love your name.__________________ "An "ego trip"...
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The all-time champ of the genre --for intensity, if not for number of times on record-- may, in fact, be Clarence Carter yet again. In his song "Strokin'", he tells us that when he gets down to some...
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