| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAGAHATA Akitoshi Nagoya University, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Professor, 国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (90208041)
FUJII Tagiru Nagoya University, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor, 国際言語文化研究科, 助教授 (00165333)
FUSE Satoshi Nagoya University, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor, 国際言語文化研究科, 助教授 (60345840)
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| Research Abstract |
In this joint research project, we analyzed the lyrics of popular music, which made a remarkable development in the 20th-century. Above all, we elucidated how, on the one hand, they interpenetrate with the texts of various kinds (literary, philosophical, religious, etc.) of the so-called "high culture," and how, on the other, they are interconnected with the memories and the political/social awareness of particular periods and groups (in terms of such issues as wars, generations, minority groups, sexes, the "other," discrimination, unemployment, violence, the races, immigration and settlement).
While 20th-century popular music was consumed globally, beyond the national borders, the major sources of production were the areas with highly developed music reproduction technology, music industry and mass media. Therefore, we clarified the textual affinities in the language of popular music, with principal focuses on the songs by eminent popular singers of the U.S., England, Germany and France (Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Lauren Newton and Enrico Macias). Based on this research, we also translated some of the lyrics into Japanese, because the translated lyrics circulated in the Japanese market show not a few errors, and one of the causes of such mistranslation can be sought in the shallow understanding of the textual interrelationship in the two directions mentioned above.
With the cooperation of researchers from universities other than Nagoya University and graduate students in the doctoral program of Nagoya University, we expanded the fields of our research with the studies of popular music in Portuguese, Arabic and Chinese, and, in terms of genres, reinforced our research centered on the rock music and folk songs in the developed countries of the 20th century with the studies of distinctive music in other areas (such as Algerian Rai and popular songs in Shanghai).
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