(fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"

[Eric Nielsen]

You're in good company--as to wondering about terminology. Check out Suzy
Bogguss' comments at about 3:50 in this interview (some good yodeling, too):

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avWd9BAcNqU

Eric

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:


> *Is there a better term for the first-person protagonist of a song? It's =
> not necessarily "the singer", "the songwriter", or the person whose =
> point of view is represented (which may be a third/second person).  Talk =
> about lexical gaps!=
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