I'm working on some cool ideas (cool for me, at least). I'm interested in music that popularizes poetry. Singing Góngora or Neruda with a folksy sounding guitar is cool.  I'm interested in the dynamic of what happens there. There is a lot of it, in the first place. We don't find this in the English-speaking world like this.

But then what gets really interesting is music in which this popularizing impetus is accompanied by a complex movement in the other direction. Now the music itself gets more intellectual, not only through the words, but through how the musical style itself has to change itself now that it is associated with this poem.  This counter-movement is where it gets really interesting.

When you play music in the classroom, students respond to it but don't have anything much to say unless they are given a framework for analysis. The worst thing is when they like the song but view it as audiovisual supplementation rather than the main point.