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Example: Bilingual musicians as translators

Watch Guto Pryce, member of Welsh bilingual band the Super Furry Animals, explore his experiences of composing songs as a bilingual speaker.

Multilingual speakers are often oblivious of translation because they themselves live ‘in translation’, forging their identity and relationships in a constant tension between different languages and cultural allegiances.

In this interview, Guto Pryce, member of Welsh bilingual band the Super Furry Animals, explores his experiences of composing songs as a bilingual Welsh/English speaker, and the multiple cultural and often political implications of choosing to sing in Welsh or English.


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Working with Translation: Theory and Practice

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