说唱填词内涵（说唱乐是诗歌吗）

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说唱填词内涵

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今天这篇渣翻来自The American Conservative，作者MICAH MATTIX ，并由我们正儿八经英语专业在读的欢欢老师激情翻译，如果翻的不行，大家请归罪于失败的中国高校教育。

说唱是诗歌吗？其实每个人心中都有自己的答案。不少杰出的Rapper被冠以“街头诗人”的称号，而90年代之所以被称作黄金年代，与其精湛而艺术化的歌词审美脱离不了关系。

然而真相却是，再有文学性的歌词也成不了诗歌，再有音乐性的诗歌也成不了说唱。废话不多说，正文开始：

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The short answer is “no,” of course. To state the obvious, things can share certain attributes and not be the same sort of thing, and asking whether rap is poetry has always struck me as a useless question. Both rap and poetry use literary devices like assonance and alliteration. Both use words. Both are spoken. But rap is a musical-verbal art and poetry is a verbal-musical-typographical one. So why make the comparison?

简单的来说，不。显而易见的是，两种毫无关联的事物中也可以存在相似的属性，更勿论“说唱是否是诗歌”，这个问题其实没有什么卵用。说唱和诗歌都使用了相同的文学手法，比如谐音和押韵;都使用单词;都是口头上的。但说唱是一种音乐类型，而诗歌是一种极具音乐风格的印刷作品。那么，为什么要将他们进行比较呢?

Well, as David Caplan points out in his intriguing Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture (Oxford, 2014), it can be a way of both elevating (or highlighting, depending on your view) rap’s artistry and defending poetry against its apparent decline.

正如大卫·卡普兰(David Caplan)在他骚气的文章Rhyme’sChallenge:Hip Hop,Poetry,and Contemporary Rhyming Culture(Oxford, 2014)中指出的那样，把两者放在一起比较，可以在提升或强调说唱的艺术性的同时，为诗歌的明显衰落作辩护。

John McWhorter provides an example of this over at The Daily Beast. In “Americans Have Never Loved Poetry More—But They Call It Rap,” McWhorter argues that rap is poetry because:

It rhymes, often even internally. Its authors work hard on the lyrics. The subject matter is certainly artistically heightened, occasioning long-standing debates over whether the depictions of violence and misogyny in some of it are sincere. And then, that “gangsta” style is just one, and less dominant than it once was. Rap, considered as a literature rather than its top-selling hits, addresses a wide-range of topics, even including science fiction. Rap is now decades old, having evolved over time and being increasingly curated by experts. In what sense is this not a “real” anything?

John McWhorter在The Daily Beast中提供了一个例子。“美国人从来都不喜欢诗歌——但他们把它称为说唱”，McWhorter认为说唱是诗歌，是因为:

它有着内化的旋律，它的作者努力构思歌词。它想传达的主题无疑经过了艺术夸张，引起了人们关于歌词内暴力和反女权的描述是否真实的长期争论（？？？确定不是高级黑吗）。当然，当今说唱中，前面说的gangsta风格只能算一种过气的style了。如今的说唱歌词被认为是一种文学作品，而不是一类畅销商品，它涉及广泛的话题，有些甚至包括科幻。说唱现在已经有几十年的历史了，随着时间的推移不断演变，越来越多的音乐人推动着它的发展。那么我们有什么理由认为它不是一种“真正的”诗歌呢？

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The only reason it is not considered “real” poetry, McWhorter argues, channeling his inner Derrida, is that Western culture has long valued written language over speech:

The only reason rap may seem to nevertheless not be “real” poetry is a skewed take on language typical of modern, literate societies: that spoken language is merely a sloppy version of written language. “English,” under this analysis, is what’s on a page, with punctuation and fonts and whoms and such. Speech is “just talking.”

Also, rap is often profane and can seem less serious.

McWhorter认为，说唱并不被视作“真正的”诗歌的唯一原因，是西方文化长期以来认为书面语言比口头语言更重要:

这是因为现代社会对“语言”的一个典型误解:口语只能算是一种书面语言的草率版。在这种观点中，“英语”是指写在纸上的内容，有标点符号、字体等等的书面语言。而以“语言”为载体的说唱仅仅是“说话”。此外，说唱往往是轻浮的，并且不那么严肃。

TO BE CONTINUE