TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jansen,Lisa
TI  - English Rock and Pop Performances: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of British and American Language Perceptions and Attitudes
T2  - IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society Series
SN  - 9789027257895
AV  - ML3918.P67 
U1  - 427.941 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Singing-Diction
KW  - Popular music-Social aspects
KW  - Popular music-Analysis, appreciation
KW  - English language-Social aspects
KW  - English language-Dialectology
KW  - Music and language
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- English Rock and Pop Performances -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- chapter 1. Introduction -- chapter 2. Language performances as an object of sociolinguistic investigation -- 2.1 Pop culture and language performances -- 2.2 Language performances in the third wave of sociolinguistics -- 2.3 The sociolinguistic significance of language performances -- chapter 3. Singing as language performance -- 3.1 The performer: Motivations for singing styles -- 3.1.1 The American role model: A classic case of referee design -- 3.1.2 Two trends: Going mainstream and going local -- 3.1.3 Further reasons for style-shifting in singing -- 3.1.4 Revisiting theories on language performance in music -- 3.2 The audience: Change of perspective -- 3.2.1 Case I: Arctic Monkeys -- 3.2.2 Case II: Joss Stone -- 3.2.3 Case III: One Direction -- 3.2.4 Case IV: Rihanna -- 3.2.5 First insights into the audience's perspective -- 3.3 Making a case for folk-linguistic research into music performances -- chapter 4. Qualitative data and analysis -- 4.1 Methodology and data collection -- 4.1.1 Online survey -- 4.1.2 Auditory stimuli -- 4.1.3 Participants -- 4.1.4 The guided interview: Procedure -- 4.2 Data analysis and processing -- 4.3 Reviewing indexical fields -- Results I: Perception of stimuli -- 5.1 Perception of rock stimuli -- 5.1.1 The Subways: "Celebrity" -- 5.1.2 Band of Skulls: "The Devil Takes Care of His Own" -- 5.1.3 Bush: "The Heart of the Matter" -- 5.1.4 The Subways: "It's a Party" -- 5.1.5 The Black Keys: "Little Black Submarines" -- 5.2 Perception of pop stimuli -- 5.2.1 Cheryl: "Girl in the Mirror" -- 5.2.2 Jessie j: "It's My Party" -- 5.2.3 Olly Murs: "Hey You Beautiful" -- 5.2.4 McFly: "End of the World" -- 5.2.5 Taylor Swift: "Stay Stay Stay"; 5.3 Interim summary: Perception of stimuli -- chapter 6. Results II: The discussion phase -- 6.1 Attitudes toward singing styles and genres -- 6.2 Associative fields of singing styles and genres -- 6.2.1 Associative field: American(ized) singing style and pop music -- 6.2.2 Associative field: Going local and rock music -- chapter 7. Discussion -- 7.1 Perception of linguistic and non-linguistic features in the stimuli -- 7.2 British and American attitudes toward an American(ized) accent and local vernaculars in music -- 7.3 Reflections on data and method -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix I. Orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of the stimuli -- Stimulus 1 -- Stimulus 2 -- Stimulus 3 -- Stimulus 4 -- Stimulus 5 -- Stimulus 6 -- Stimulus 7 -- Stimulus 8 -- Stimulus 9 -- Stimulus 10 -- Appendix II. Codebook -- Index
N2  - This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach to this pop cultural trend and drawing attention to the audience, British and American students' perceptions of English rock and pop performances were elicited
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