{"id":58973,"date":"2018-04-20T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T11:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58973"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T11:09:27","slug":"pulitzer-lamar-nobel-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58973","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer : Lamar :: Nobel : Dylan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — with the nost remarkable, beautiful, unexpected, unexpectable music at the very end, a total surprise ]
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Kendrick Lamar<\/strong> just won the Pulitzer for music. A small while back, Bob Dylan<\/strong> won the Nobel Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t seen anyone comparing Kendrick Lamar<\/strong>‘s Pulitzer fuss with Bob Dylan<\/strong>‘s Nobel shenanigans — yet.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

The black on white of the Dylan lyrics (upper panel, above) and the white on black of the Lamar lyrics (lower panel, above) aren’t racially intended, nor do they represent good and evil as so commonly elsewhere — and in any case, in black on white is it the black or the white that carries the meaning, and vice versa — but in the case of white on black, which do you notice most? And above, below, what do they mean?<\/p>\n

Both, and. <\/p>\n

Good’n’evil, rock’n’roll. Rock on, world.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

These two will give you the surprise, surprise narratives:<\/p>\n

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  • New York Times<\/strong>, Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature<\/a>\n
  • NPR<\/strong>, How The Pulitzer Jury Opened Its Doors To Hip-Hop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    And those two headlines make a nice contrapuntal DoubleQuote<\/strong>, too.<\/p>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    Me, I’ve been listening to Dylan <\/strong>since I could crawl and he was folk, and had never consciously heard the words Kendrick Lamar<\/strong> until yesterday, when I started in on this piece.<\/p>\n

    Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Here are the two musics from which the lytrics posted above are taken, both of which you may skip if you know them already:<\/p>\n