Sentence examples for vernacular lyrics from inspiring English sources

Bernstein even tapped that show's creator, Stephen Schwartz, to help write the vernacular lyrics added to the Roman Catholic liturgy.

He said that a scheduled Chicago date had to be abandoned three years ago because a black singer objected to the vernacular lyrics.

But the group is also about celebrating their ethnicity with vernacular lyrics, classical beats, and issues they cared about: Mumbai, gangsters, rag-pickers, rape, and the Tamil Tigers, the militant group that fought for a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka between 1976 and 2009.

In exaggerated Black Vernacular English, the lyrics tell of Dan Tucker's exploits in a strange town, where he fights, gets drunk, overeats, and breaks other social taboos.

Published in 1983, it displays Mr. Nordan's characteristic lyric vernacular and his penchant for narrative that is swampy brew of sexual yearning, death, guilt and grotesquerie.

Renegade, though, sheds little light on Smith's songwriting style: that clipped Salfordian vernacular, those cryptic, allusive lyrics, the insistence on musical rawness and repetition.

The lyrics and vernacular he writes in are drawn from his father's side of the family.

I am not going to get in the game of choosing one performance over the other; both negotiate the leaps in rhetorical register, from the plain-vanilla vernacular to the robustly lyric, with impressive nimbleness.

The celebration of Razaf, who to this day has barely achieved cult recognition, was the culmination of a three-evening exploration of pop lyric vernaculars in American songwriting.

Nothing feels forced; the lyric and the vernacular cohabit with ease.

The writer Damon Runyon had a remarkable ear for street-speech and Loesser's lyrics brilliantly reproduce that vernacular tang – the words "I", "Me" or "My" stud the songs – while establishing that, among paradigms of rhymes, he was the bridge between Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim.