Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9789027257895
9027257892
9789027210944
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2022).
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| Summary: | "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. Interviews guided by various music clips were conducted and analyzed through a detailed qualitative content analysis. The interviewees' responses provide important insights into social meanings attached to Americanized voices and local British accents in the respective genres and show how British and American attitudes toward these performance accents differ. These perceptions and attitudes are illustrated by developing associative fields which offer a fresh view on the notion of indexicalities. An engaging folk linguistic investigation of a relatable everyday pop culture phenomenon, this book makes complex sociolinguistic phenomena easily approachable and qualitative research accessible. It is suitable for intermediate students onward and inspires further research projects in the field of language performances"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Jansen, Lisa English rock and pop performances Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022 9789027210944
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