Tradução de canção: análise de músicas de Bob Dylan traduzidas por Zé Ramalho

Abstract

Translation Studies can be affiliated to several areas of activity. Among the possible researches in the field of Translation Studies, we observe an area little explored: the translation of songs. Even though music translation can contemplate different types of cultural expressions of everyday life such as musicals, clip subtitling, translated music websites, we will maintain our focus on translated songs that were relevant in the Brazilian popular music scene. Some Brazilian composers, such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Fausto Nilo, Zé Ramalho, among others, translate music from other languages. In this context, the writer, singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, widely recognized for his great musical and literary work, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, has some prominence. Faced with a number of musical translations made from songs by Bob Dylan into Brazilian Portuguese, we will make a selection of 6 songs contained in the album Zé Ramalho sings Bob Dylan – Tá tudo mudando. In our research, we will seek to outline the strategies used by the translator, as we understand that this information is relevant to analyzing a translation, given that Descriptive Translation Studies are committed to describing the reality of the act of translating, rather than prescribing how a precise translation be done. For the analysis of the translations of song lyrics, this research will use the criteria for analyzing the translation of songs created by Peter Low (2005), in his Pentathlon Principle, so that, with this theoretical-methodological contribution, we can make a qualitative analysis of the translation of Dylan's songs into Portuguese.