TY - CHAP
T1 - Dolphin and whale communication in arts and music
T2 - Towards a new ethics of translation and representation
AU - Susam-Saraeva, Sebnem
PY - 2025/3/31
Y1 - 2025/3/31
N2 - This contribution focuses on cetacean (dolphin & whale) communication and how it is represented in arts and music. The popularity of “whale songs” since the 1970s has relied on the aestheticisation and mystification of their communication systems, initially for raising environmental awareness, later also for commercial purposes. More recent artistic endeavours instead place emphasis on the materiality of cetaceans’ lives and the many threats they encounter, e.g. entanglements, captivity, plastic and noise pollution. The objective of my research is to explore a more ethical representation and translation of cetacean communication systems, as part of widening efforts towards interspecies communication.
AB - This contribution focuses on cetacean (dolphin & whale) communication and how it is represented in arts and music. The popularity of “whale songs” since the 1970s has relied on the aestheticisation and mystification of their communication systems, initially for raising environmental awareness, later also for commercial purposes. More recent artistic endeavours instead place emphasis on the materiality of cetaceans’ lives and the many threats they encounter, e.g. entanglements, captivity, plastic and noise pollution. The objective of my research is to explore a more ethical representation and translation of cetacean communication systems, as part of widening efforts towards interspecies communication.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Translation-in-the-Performing-Arts-Embodiment-Materiality-and-Inclusion/DeFrancisci-Marinetti/p/book/9781032371542?srsltid=AfmBOoro9EV4k5K-AOHvUNxZ74oAceogtcakTHAsBbYsE0sKIcFdJ9aY
U2 - 10.4324/9781003335573-5
DO - 10.4324/9781003335573-5
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781032371542
T3 - Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
BT - Translation in the Performing Arts
A2 - De Francisci , Enza
A2 - Marinetti, Cristina
PB - Routledge
ER -