Evolution of the English-speaking song discourse in the XX–XXI centuries.
| Autor: | Yu. E. Plotnickiy |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, Vol 27, Iss 4, Pp 131-138 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2542-0445 2712-8946 |
| DOI: | 10.18287/2542-0445-2021-27-4-131-138 |
| Popis: | The article analyses various tendencies in the development of the English-speaking song discourse, that have revealed themselves in the course of the previous 50 years. The aim of the research is to identify these tendencies and to determine the reasons of their emergence. The goals of this research were to trace the evolution of this type of discourse by way of analysing a vast corpus of song lyrics and to identify the factors that had influenced the changes that followed. The focus of our attention was mainly on rock song lyrics due to their obvious non-commercial nature. The results of the research allow us to state that in the course of evolution of the English-speaking song discourse such tendency as a tendency to simplification/sophistication manifested itself persistently. Moreover, both vectors either replaced one another or developed simultaneously. Besides, a tendency to melodicism, related to the abovementioned one, also revealed itself. We should also mention a tendency to commercialisation, typical of mass culture in general. Another one is a tendency to technological dependency, mainly of synthesizers and computers. Among the most influential tendencies we can name a tendency to visualisation, which actually brings the song discourse close to cinematographic discourse. |
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