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No, Bob Dylan isn't the first lyricist to win the Nobel

  • Written by Alex Lubet, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
imageA portrait of Indian poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore.Cherishsantosh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

There’s been a great deal of excitement over Bob Dylan winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s rare for artists who have achieved widespread, mainstream popularity to win. And although Nobels often go to Americans, the last...

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