Translation, Adaptation, and Intertextuality in Hungarian Popular Music

By: Ignácz, Ádám

This volume undertakes a comprehensive examination of issues of translation, adaptation, and intertextuality in Hungarian popular music. Focusing on the period of state socialism, the authors provide various examples of how musicians - professionals and amateurs alike - borrowed songs from distant times and places, reinventing them in a new political, technological, and esthetic environment. The case studies deal with a wide range of genres
and styles that played an important role in Hungary, such as operetta, protest song, folk, jazz, pop, and rock. Placing the Hungarian experience in a regional context, the collection also gives insight into the music scenes of the neighboring countries through a major comparative study on the Beatles adaptations in the Eastern Bloc.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631889747
• ISBN13: 9783631889749
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"