Pianure Blues: From the Dialect of the Plains to the English of the Blues

In this article the authors describe a joint performance project called Pianure Blues, in which poems in Romagnolo dialect are transposed into English and performed as blues songs, and in which songs from the Anglo-American blues/roots/folk tradition are transposed and performed as poems in Romagnol...

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Published inELOPE (Tiskana izd.) Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 125 - 140
Main Authors Nadiani, Giovanni, Rundle, Christopher
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ljubljana University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts 2016
University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
Subjects
Blues music
Creative process
Creativity
Dialects
English language
Interpreters
music
Performing artists
Poetry
Poets
Semiotics
song
trans-staging
translating
Translators
transposing
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Summary:In this article the authors describe a joint performance project called Pianure Blues, in which poems in Romagnolo dialect are transposed into English and performed as blues songs, and in which songs from the Anglo-American blues/roots/folk tradition are transposed and performed as poems in Romagnolo dialect – a process they have called ‘trans-staging’. A process in which they are writers and performers and, especially, translators; translators of each other’s voices, stories, landscapes, rhythms and sounds as they look for the bond between places, languages and traditions that seem very distant from each other but which find a common mood and poetic language, a common aesthetic, in their performances. The authors reflect on the creative process involved and on the significance of establishing an intersemiotic dialogue between a ‘minority’ dialect such as Romagnolo and a ‘global’ language such as English, and the blues, have become.
ISSN:1581-8918
2386-0316
DOI:10.4312/elope.13.1.125-140