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He appreciated the way the number distills a complex dramatic scene into lyrics, collapsing “past, present and future in a packaged song form” that records the witness testimony of those who had incomplete knowledge of the fateful treaty signing that will redirect not just the fate of a nation but the course of world history.

Roxanne Shante’s first rap experience didn’t come in song form.

I think I felt a very strong desire to work with the apparent simplicity of the song form.

It's actually a conversation in song form.

In the 196os, her piece “Homesickness” became a popular instrumental version of the Ethiopian song form known as tezeta, or nostalgia, about longing and remembrance.