Lyric/Poetry 

Choose 3-5 works. Any band listed has various authors and author groups. Choose material written by the same author or author group. Pseudonyms are in parentheses following artist's born name if the artist published under given name. Cite accurately.

Barlow, John Perry and Robert Weir
Beatles
Bowie, David

Cash, Johnny
Chapin, Harry
Crosby, David

Dickinson, Emily

Fogerty, John
Frey, Glen
Frost, Robert

Garcia, Jerry and Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead

Harper, Ben
Harrison, George
Hazlewood, Lee
Hendrix, Jimi
Henley, Don
Hughes, Langston
Hunter, Robert
Hunter, Robert and Robert Weir

Ivey, Artis (Coolio)

Jackson, O'Shea (Ice Cube)
John, Elton
Jones, John Paul

Kamakawiwo'ole, Israel
Kantner, Paul
Kilcher, Jewel

Led Zeppelin
Lennon, John
Lennon, John and Paul McCartney
Lightfoot, Gordon

MacLean, Don
Marley, Bob
McCartney, Paul
Morrison, Jim

Nelson, Rick (Ricky Nelson)
Nelson, Willie
Nordine, Ken

Pink Floyd
Page, Jimmy and Robert Plant
Prine, John

Shakur, Tupac
Simon, Paul
Slick, Grace

Taylor, James
Townshend, Pete

Wainwright, Louden
Water, Roger
Wilson, Brian

Young, Neil

Other (must be approved by Instructor)

Lyric Poem List

Choose 1 from the following lyrical poems/songs for your first paper. For more information, check Eiland's Lyrical Poem List page.

Alternative/Other
Chickenshit Conformist (like Your Parents) (Biafra) Lyric
What It's Like (Schrody) Lyric
Under The Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Lyric (choose lyric tab to the FAR right of the song)
Polly (Cobain) Lyrics
Ball and Chain (Ness) Lyrics
Precious Things (Amos) Lyric
Blues
Cross Road Blues (Johnson) Eric Clapton/Cream Lyric
Country
"Summer Wine" (Hazlewood)Distributor Website
Big River (Cash)Lyric and video; Video
"Sunday Morning Comin Down" (Kristofferson) Lyric, Perf by Johnny Cash
"American Pie" (MacLean) Lyric
"Creeque Alley" (Phillips)Lyric
"Okie from Muskogee" (Haggard) Lyric
Coal Miner's Daughter (Lynn) Artist's website
Folk
A Horse with No Name (America) Lyric
Like a Rolling Stone (Dylan) Lyric
Sam Stone (Prine) Lyric
Luka (Vega) Lyric
Funk
Livin' for the City (Wonder) Lyric
Superstition (Wonder) Lyric
Superfly (Mayfield) Lyric
Hard Rock
Song Remains the Same/Rain Song (Page/Plant) Lyric website
Life's Been Good (Walsh) Lyric
Jazz
Big Yellow Taxi (Mitchell) Artist's website
Do It Again (Becker/Fagan) Artists' website
Strange Fruit (Allen) Lyrics
Metal
Flight of Icarus (Smith, Dickinson)
Lyric
Paranoid (Ozborne/Ward/Butler/Iommi) Lyric
Psychedelia
A Day in the Life (Lennon/McCartney) Lyric website
Come Together (Lennon/McCartney) Lyric website
Dogs (Gilmour/Waters) Artists' website
The End (The Doors)Lyric website
L.A. Woman (The Doors) Lyric website
Sheep (Gilmour/Waters)Artists' website
Some Velvet Morning (Phaedra) (Hazlewood)Distributor Website
Throwing Stones (Barlow/Weir) Grateful Dead Lyric Archive (annotated)
Truckin (Hunter/Garcia/Lesh/Weir) Grateful Dead Lyric Archive (annotated)
White Rabbit (Slick) Lyric
Punk/New Wave/Ska
Chickenshit Conformist (like Your Parents) (Biafra) Lyric
God Save The Queen (Jones, et al) Sex Pistols Lyric
Rap/Hip Hop
Gangsta's Paradise (Coolio) Lyric
It Was a Good Day (Jackson, et al) Lyric
Dear Mama (Shakur) Lyric Rolling Stone Biography
Reggae/World
Concrete Jungle (Marley) Bob Marley & the Wailers Lyrics Documentary and analysis of Marley works
No Woman, No Cry (Ford, Marley) Bob Marley & the Wailers Video with lyrics
Traditional
John Henry (Mitchell/traditional) Harry Belafonte Bio of John Henry
Western
El Paso (Robbins) Lyric Link
Streets of Laredo (traditional) Michael Martin Murphy, Marty Robbins Lyric

Literature 

Choose 1 work. Make sure it is of sufficient length and complexity to complete the assignment. Any author listed without specific titles must be approved with instructor in advance.

Adams, Douglas
Andersen, Hans Christian
Asimov, Isaac (I Robot)

Bradbury, Ray
Bronte, Emily (Wuthering Heights)
Buchheim, Lothar-Gunther (Das Boot)
Bukowsky, Charles

Camus, Albert (The Guest, The Plague)
Chaucer, Geoffery (any 5 Tales from Canterbury Tales)
Child, Lee
Chopin, Kate (The Awakening or overview)
Conrad, Joseph (Heart of Darkness)

Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Brothers Karamazov)

Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Gaiman, Neil
Geisel, Theodore Seuss (Dr. Seuss)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. (The Yellow Wallpaper)
Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm

Hemingway, Ernest
Hill, Joe
Hillerman, Tony
Hunter, Evan (The Blackboard Jungle)
Hurston, Zora Neale (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

Kafka, Franz (The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony)
Kesey, Ken
Kingsolver, Barbara
King, Stephen
Kipling, Rudyard (The Jungle Book)

Larsson, Steig

McDonald, John D.
Morrison, Toni (Beloved)

Nesbo, Jo

Oates, Joyce Carol (Where are You Going...)

Perrault, Charles
Poe, Edgar Allan

Salinger, J.D.
Shelley, Mary (Frankenstein)
Sinclair, Upton (The Jungle)
Stoker, Bram (Dracula)
Swift, Jonathan

Tan, Amy
Twain, Mark

Vonnegeut, Kurt

West, Nathaniel (Miss Lonely Hearts and The Day of the Locust)

Other (must be approved by Instructor)

Drama 

Choose 1 work. Some of these are scripted plays and some are movies. Some are listed by author, some by director, and some by producer. In any case, you MUST have a script as your primary source. Any author/director/producer listed without specific titles must be approved with instructor in advance.

Bernstein, Leonard, and Stephen Sondheim (West Side Story)
Burton, Tim
Disney, Walt
Fellini, Federico
Leone, Sergio
Lumet, Sydney (Twelve Angry Men)
Lucas, George
Mamet, David (Oleanna)
Miller, Arthur (The Crucible, All My Sons, (Death of a Salesman)
Miyazaki, Hayao
Reiner, Rob
Rice, Tim and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rose, Reginald (Twelve Angry Men)
Shakespeare, William
Tarantino, Quentin
Tornatore, Guiseppe (Cinema Paradiso)
Townshend, Pete
Wilde, Oscar (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Williams, Tennesee (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

Other (must be approved by Instructor)

From Prof. Eiland's Term Paper List.