Travelling Songs: On Popular Music Transfer and Translation
Even though a song is created in a specific national or communitarian context, which determines to various degrees its production and reception processes, once it is recorded, reproduced and disseminated, especially via the global music market, it travels and wanders through time and place, thus bec...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Music
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| description | Even though a song is created in a specific national or communitarian context, which determines to various degrees its production and reception processes, once it is recorded, reproduced and disseminated, especially via the global music market, it travels and wanders through time and place, thus becoming a transcultural product. The fruits of these transfers are what I call a “travelling song” and, by extension, “travelling music”. In this article, I will argue that travelling songs are dramatically transformed by their new contexts of reception. Focusing on alterity and diversity over sameness and isomorphism, the main objective of this work is to provide a general typology of music transfers that draws on translation and cultural transfer theories. Such musical transfers can be categorized in four ways: a) cultural reception; b) musical reprise; c) translation and adaptation; d) stylistic emulation. Such as distinction will lead the discussion to insights into how music transfers relate to such concepts as fidelity, authorship and creativity within a polycentric dynamic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b2f33d4c726943ccb6f09277ee943fb02022-12-22T00:52:49ZengInternational Association for the Study of Popular MusicIASPM Journal2079-38712079-38712015-01-0152321Travelling Songs: On Popular Music Transfer and TranslationIsabelle Marc0Universidad Complutense de MadridEven though a song is created in a specific national or communitarian context, which determines to various degrees its production and reception processes, once it is recorded, reproduced and disseminated, especially via the global music market, it travels and wanders through time and place, thus becoming a transcultural product. The fruits of these transfers are what I call a “travelling song” and, by extension, “travelling music”. In this article, I will argue that travelling songs are dramatically transformed by their new contexts of reception. Focusing on alterity and diversity over sameness and isomorphism, the main objective of this work is to provide a general typology of music transfers that draws on translation and cultural transfer theories. Such musical transfers can be categorized in four ways: a) cultural reception; b) musical reprise; c) translation and adaptation; d) stylistic emulation. Such as distinction will lead the discussion to insights into how music transfers relate to such concepts as fidelity, authorship and creativity within a polycentric dynamic.https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/738/Marcpopular musicpopular music transferstranslationtranslation theoriesisomorphismalterity |
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| title | Travelling Songs: On Popular Music Transfer and Translation |
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| title_short | Travelling Songs: On Popular Music Transfer and Translation |
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| topic | popular music popular music transfers translation translation theories isomorphism alterity |
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