4d (edited) • General discussion
Contending with Lyrics as Chapter Epigraphs
It turns out that licensing all of the lyrics I want to use at the beginning of each chapter is going to cost about $10,000. I am faced with two alternatives:
- Leave the chapter titles as the song titles, and those who know the lyrics or who bother to look them up, will understand the connection. I'll also nclude the performer name for context.
- Switch all the chapter titles and epigraph lyrics to public domain songs (1929 and earlier), even though the biography is set between 1951 and 2012.
What is your preference? Is there a third option? Will it look weird that some chapters with pre-1929 songs have lyrics and the rest don't?
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Contending with Lyrics as Chapter Epigraphs
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