NOTE: This group description is a work in progress. See the below topic, "Group Description," for ongoing debate and discussion.

Lit Rock (also known as Literary Rock and Literate Rock) describes a type of popular music featuring predominantly literary lyrical content. Such music may include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Rock songwriting itself as a literary art form.
  
• Poems set to rock music. This may include poetry either adapted for a musical setting or set, unaltered, to music (poet-written); or lyrics that hold up on their own as poems (songwriter-written).
  
• Narrative rock songs that employ literary storytelling techniques, as well as groups of songs intended to create a narrative (such as concept albums or rock operas).
  
• Rock music about literary works, authors, or themes (also known as "book rock").
  

Lit Rock can be considered "cross-genre" in that it may include music in any Rock subgenre, and even spill over into related popular music styles such as Pop, Alternative, Indie, Folk, Metal, Electronica, Rap, and so forth.

While all popular music with lyrics is eligible for discussion, this group is primarily concerned with the questions: What can be described as "literary" in popular music? What songs and artists can be described as "literary" and why? In our disposable culture, is there any lasting value for rock songwriting as a literary form?

Music fans, musicians, music critics, songwriters, poets, writers, readers, literary editors, literary critics, theorists, and academics are all welcome!