The The Wind Knows the Answer. Ideological Transformations of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” in Polish

Jakub Antosz-Rekucki




Abstrakt

 “Blowin’ in the Wind” is considered to be one of  the lyrics most representative of Bob Dylan’s songwriting and is the one most frequently  translated into Polish among the American poet’s texts. This article analyses the ideological and poetological transformations of the original in its melic translations into Polish, demonstrating that its arguably key features (including engagement with social activism and use of Biblical allusions) underwent dramatic shifts to fit the constraints of target culture expectations and the needs and values of respective translators.


Słowa kluczowe:

song translation, melic translation, Bob Dylan, translator’s values, Biblical allusions, song lyrics


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Antosz-Rekucki, J. (2023). The The Wind Knows the Answer. Ideological Transformations of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” in Polish. Acta Neophilologica, 2(XXV), 55–77. https://doi.org/10.31648/an.9252

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