What happened in the Sixties? How did singers of popular music transform from
mere entertainers to the poetic bards of their generation? Were these songs
literature? If so, what does that mean? And if not, what exactly are they? In
this episode, Jacke talks to the authors of a new book, Poetic Song Verse:
Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry about a new way of acknowledging,
analyzing, and discussing the literary qualities of works by singer-songwriters
like Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and those who came before and after.