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Link: Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL)

23 Sep 02 - 01:21 PM (#789677)
Subject: Link: Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL
From: Jim Dixon

I mainly wanted to call your attention to this website: The SIBL Project, an organization that promotes adult literacy by using "music as a vehicle to engage, inspire and reinforce the magic of literature and the power of reading."

Their list of famous SIBLs is fun to browse (though it's discouraging that it contains so many typos).

They also sponsor a yearly songwriting competition.

What songs inspired by literature are you aware of? If they're not already in The SIBL Project's list, I'll collect them and e-mail them to The SIBL Project.


23 Sep 02 - 01:24 PM (#789680)
Subject: RE: Link: Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL
From: Schantieman

Depends what you mean by literature. Pete Bellamy's setting of Kipling's poems are pretty amazing.

Steve


23 Sep 02 - 02:53 PM (#789753)
Subject: RE: Link: Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL
From: fat B****rd

Er..Wuthering Heights, or is this gonna be a wordy thread ?.


23 Sep 02 - 03:06 PM (#789763)
Subject: RE: Link: Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL
From: Clinton Hammond

Well, what the hell's the point of having a web site that cannot accept submissions...


24 Sep 02 - 05:53 AM (#790139)
Subject: RE: Link: Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL)
From: Nigel Parsons

Almost any "Filk" song, as long as SciFi & fantasy count as literature

Nigel