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The article investigates Swedish translations of Georges Brassens' chansons. The aim is to establish what translation methods have been used when the songs were transferred to the target language and covered by Swedish artists. Ten target texts have been analyzed using Johan Franzon's (2021) system of classification of popular songs in translation. Seven target texts stayed faithful to the source texts and were classified as “Near-enough translations.” The three remaining target texts did not resemble the source texts at all and were classified in the category “All-new target lyrics.” A tendency towards a higher degree of fidelity in the song translations was observed from the 1980s and onwards.
Keywords: Georges Brassens, chanson française, paroles de chanson, traduction de chanson, traductologie, Georges Brassens, French chanson, song lyrics, song translation, translation studies
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AbstractIn a previous article (De Surmont, 2001), we highlighted how the arrival ofindustry and mass media transformed the singing career into one of mediator, aninteracting agent of song writing that also had a place in the press, in literature,etc. Certain singers, songwriters, or poets whose poetry was put to song or tomusic, were also sometimes editors (Napoléon Aubin), or printers (Roch Lettoré),hence the tradition of the author-editor-printer. Consider also the multiplefunctions of the journalist during the period beginning with the coming into beingof the French Canadian press through the end of the nineteenth century.1 Afterwards,in the early twentieth century, radio and sound recording became the privilegedplatforms of the song-as-object (l'objet-chanson) which, like the telegraphand other inventions, favoured the circulation of ideas. In this article, wejuxtapose the development of radio with the original song composition (chansonsignée), and show correlations between historical conditions and the function ofradio. Our aim is to better understand those contexts that favoured the birth andevolution of radio itself as well as the broadcasting of a popular culture. Thestudy focuses mainly on the socio-historical dimension of radio and its role insteering the careers of singers or songwriters of the chanson québécoise (ouranalysis could not include all artisans in the music industry such as tour managers,agents, producers, etc.). More generally, we look at the democratization of culturethrough radio.
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