La traducció de cançons: anàlisi de l'adaptació al català de Rent

Moreno Gil, Anabel

La traducció de cançons: anàlisi de l'adaptació al català de Rent

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Moreno Gil, A. La traducció de cançons: anàlisi de l'adaptació al català de Rent. 2016. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/30789

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Abstract

Although audio-visual translation sparks a lot of interest and its main modalities (dubbing and subtitling) have been widely documented, bibliography devoted to translating songs is quite poor. This paper aims to provide a theoretical approach about song translation for plays and it also analyzes the adaptation into Catalan of a practical example: the musical Rent. The goal is to discover how the theoretical and the practical approach are interrelated and figure out which principles such a rhyme, sense or naturalness deserve more attention to make sure the translated songs convey the same meaning as their original ones. In order to do so, the Broadway musical Rent has been watched on a digital version, as well as its live Catalan version, which was held in Barcelona. A contrastive analysis between both has been carried out paying attention to the songs. Moreover, deep research on audio-visual translation and especially on songs translation has been done. Finally, the relationship between theoretical and practical approach has alsol been observed. To conclude, it is obvious that translating songs is a very complicated task, which is usually performed by professionals but not translators. Besides all that, the analyzed version of Rent is very accurate and in order to obtain a functional translation and a quality product at the same time, it is necessary to prioritize some principles.