Contribution of Translations and Adaptations to the Birth of Turkish Pop Music

Authors

  • AyÅŸe Åžirin Okyayuz BÄ°lkent University, Ankara Turkey

Keywords:

song translation, translation of popular music

Abstract

Popular songs are important multimodal mass media products through which cultures are communicated to people of different backgrounds, and these are widely translated. But, the study of the translations of popular songs has been partially neglected in translation studies. In a neffort to contribute to filling this gap, the article aims to underline the importance of the translation and adaptation of songs; to explain how songs were translated and adapted to give birth to Turkish pop music; and to provide an example of an instance where socio-political and cultural realities and aspirations, aided by different translational strategies, helped shape a new music culture.

Author Biography

AyÅŸe Åžirin Okyayuz, BÄ°lkent University, Ankara Turkey

Assist. Prof. Dr.Sirin Okyayuz is a trainer and researcher at Bilkent University Department ofTranslation and Interpreting in Ankara- Turkey. Her research fields are literary translation, audiovisual translation, translation of popular culture products and translator training. She has currently published articles about AVT inTurkey and her book on AVT is the first publication of its kind dealing with AVT training and practices in Turkey. She is an AV translator and translates children books, bestselling novels in the popular genre, dramafor the stage, and books on politics and philosophy.

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Published

2016-06-15

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Okyayuz, A. Åžirin. (2016). Contribution of Translations and Adaptations to the Birth of Turkish Pop Music. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 4(3). Retrieved from https://www.ajouronline.com/index.php/AJHSS/article/view/3892

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