INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTS, HISTORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES (IJAHCS)
Music, Lyrics and Performance in Pop Song Translation
E-ISSN: 2695-1886
P-ISSN: 3517-9252
DOI: https://iigdpublishers.com/article/1094
This paper focuses on song translation and on the task that the translator must accomplish when the verbal meaning is influenced and constrained by the simultaneous presence of multi-semiotic codes. I will outline a framework concerning the analysis of pop music translation based on various levels of equivalence between original songs and translated songs taking into account three main aspects: the music, the lyrics and the performance. The discussion will be based on a variety of German versions of evergreens of Italian pop music, thus providing a series of samples for a language pair not yet considered by researchers.
Barbara Delli Castelli
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