摘要
Adapting a novel into a film is not a simple question of translating the narrative plot from one medium to another, it also deals with the cultural competence of the reader / spectator and the meanings and discourses articulated in the interpretation of the texts. Music is present in both novels and films, and so it participates in the process of creating meanings, even when it does not take part in the formal structure of the text. This article develops the analysis of popular music in The Commitments and High Fidelity, two films based on two novels where the ideology of rock music influences both characters and spaces. Songs, musicians and instruments are present in prose, dialogues, sound and image, both in the novels by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby, respectively, and in the films directed by Alan Parker and Stephen Frears, thus demonstrating the multimedia condition of music and its capability to interact with the narrative structure of the texts in the articulation of several discourses. La adaptaci車n cinematogr芍fica de novelas va m芍s all芍 de la transposici車n de la narrativa de un medio de expresi車n a otro e implica a una serie de discursos que est芍n presentes en la obra y que son activados por el lector-espectador en funci車n de su competencia cultural. La m迆sica, presente en ambos medios, es capaz de vehicular mensajes que, aunque no se encuentren en la estructura narrativa de las obras, participan en la creaci車n de significados. En este art赤culo abordamos un an芍lisis formal y discursivo de la m迆sica popular en Alta fidelidad y The Commitments, dos novelas adaptadas al cine en las que la ideolog赤a de la cultura rock se manifiesta en personajes y espacios. Canciones, m迆sicos e instrumentos aparecen en texto escrito, di芍logos, imagen y sonido en las novelas de Roddy Doyle y Nick Hornby y sus respectivas adaptaciones cinematogr芍ficas de Alan Parker y Stephen Frears, demostrando la condici車n multimedia de la m迆sica como lenguaje y su capacidad para interactuar con la estructura narrativa y articular sus propios discursos de forma paralela.