songwriting

songwriter | American Dictionary

songwriter
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɔŋˌrɑɪ·t̬ər/
a person who writes songs

Examples of songwriter

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How could they really be their own women, carped the press, when they had male songwriters and a male manager 'pulling the strings'?
Selected variables include whether artists are songwriters or interpreters, their career length, radio success, record sales, and gender.
To summarise, songwriters generally have more prestige than interpreters, but prestige is above all a function of where artists are located in the field.
In general, however, rock songwriters were more concerned with humanist ideas.
Compared to interpreters, songwriters generally score 1.70 point higher on the prestige scale, even when success and career length are controlled for.
In 2001, 78% of all men who participated in the contest registered as songwriters while 61% of women participated as interpreters. 15.
Bands wrote and performed their own music, no longer relying on professional songwriters.
Table 1 shows that even among younger artists, the most important factor influencing the distribution of prestige is whether artists are songwriters or interpreters.
At the same time, however, this image with its romantic overtones suggests that the songwriter was not familiar with southern architecture.
He then made the choice to keep and work on this melodic fragment, acting wholly within the parameters of his songwriter's knowledge or domain.
The trick of the great character songwriters is to sing convincingly from the first person, to have us believe.
Women are over-represented among interpreters, who on average enjoy lower prestige, and under-represented among the most prestigious group of songwriters.
Secondly, how does one measure the value of music, lyrics and performance to songwriters and their audiences?
They were songwriters from the very start and that was an inextricable part of their stardom.
The amount of selfclaimed songwriters among the respondents was high.
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