This book explores how transformations and translations shape musical meanings developments
and the perception of music across cultures. Starting with the concept of music as multimodal
text the author understands translation as the process of transferring a text from one
language - verbal or not - into another interlingually intralingually or intersemiotically
as well as the products that are derived from this process. She situates music and translation
within their contemporary global context examining the tensions between local and global
cosmopolitan and national and universal and specific settings to arrive at a celebration of
the translational power of music and an in-depth study of how musical texts are translated.
This book will be of interest to translation studies scholars who want to broaden their
horizons as well as to musicians and music scholars seeking to understand how cultural
exchange and dissemination can be driven by translation.
