Song Translation: Lyrics in Contexts grew out of a project dedicated to the translation of song
lyrics. The book aligns itself with the tradition of descriptive translation studies. Its
authors scholars from Finland Great Britain Greece Italy Norway and Sweden all deal with
the translation of song lyrics in a great variety of different contexts including music and
performance settings (inter)cultural perspectives and historical backgrounds. On the one hand
the analyses demonstrate the breadth and diversity of the concept of translation itself on the
other they show how different contexts set up conditions that shape translational practices and
products in different ways. The book is intended for translation studies scholars as well as
for musicologists students of language and or music and practicing translators in short
anybody interested in this creative and fascinating field of translational practice.
