“You’re Not from New York City, You’re from Rotherham”
This paper investigates the use of local accent and dialect features in the performance of Arctic Monkeys, a very successful indie band from Sheffield in the north of England. Previous work on variation in the sung pronunciation of British pop musicians by Trudgill (1983) and Simpson (1999) is revie...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0075424209340014 2024-06-23T07:49:09+00:00 “You’re Not from New York City, You’re from Rotherham” Dialect and Identity in British Indie Music Beal, Joan C. 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424209340014 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0075424209340014 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of English Linguistics volume 37, issue 3, page 223-240 ISSN 0075-4242 1552-5457 journal-article 2009 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424209340014 2024-06-04T06:27:45Z This paper investigates the use of local accent and dialect features in the performance of Arctic Monkeys, a very successful indie band from Sheffield in the north of England. Previous work on variation in the sung pronunciation of British pop musicians by Trudgill (1983) and Simpson (1999) is reviewed. A qualitative analysis of an Arctic Monkeys performance is carried out to determine the extent to which features of northern and/or more specifically Sheffield English are used by Arctic Monkeys. The results are then discussed within a language-ideological framework, where it is argued that Arctic Monkeys are using features of local accent and dialect to index values such as authenticity and independence from the corporate machine. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SAGE Publications Arctic Sheffield Journal of English Linguistics 37 3 223 240 |
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This paper investigates the use of local accent and dialect features in the performance of Arctic Monkeys, a very successful indie band from Sheffield in the north of England. Previous work on variation in the sung pronunciation of British pop musicians by Trudgill (1983) and Simpson (1999) is reviewed. A qualitative analysis of an Arctic Monkeys performance is carried out to determine the extent to which features of northern and/or more specifically Sheffield English are used by Arctic Monkeys. The results are then discussed within a language-ideological framework, where it is argued that Arctic Monkeys are using features of local accent and dialect to index values such as authenticity and independence from the corporate machine. |
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