Book Review: English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes

Beal Joan . 2009. “You’re not from New York City, you’re from Rotherham”: Dialect and identity in British indie music. Journal of English Linguistics 37(3). 223-240.

Bell Allan Gibson Andy . 2011. Staging language: An introduction to the sociolinguistics of performance. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(5). 555-572.

Duchaj Karen A. 2020. Which “there” is there? George Harrison’s dialect shifting in his late 1960s songs. Rock Music Studies 7(3). 240-253.

Eckert Penelope . 2018. Meaning and linguistic variation: The third wave in sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Flanagan Paul J. 2019. “A certain romance”: Style shifting in the language of Alex Turner in Arctic Monkeys songs 2006-2018. Language and Literature 28(1). 82-98.

Gibson Andy Bell Allan . 2012. Popular music singing as referee design. In Hernández-Campoy Juan Manuel Cutillas-Espinosa Juan Antonio (eds.), Style-shifting in public: New perspectives on stylistic variation, 139-164. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Konert-Panek Monika . 2017. Overshooting Americanisation: Accent stylisation in pop singing – acoustic properties of the bath and trap vowels in focus. Research in Language 15(4). 371-384

Morrissey Franz A. 2008. Liverpool to Louisiana in one lyrical line: Style choice in British rock, pop and folk singing. In Locher Miriam A. Strässler Jürg (eds.), Standards and norms in the English language, 195-219. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

O’Hanlon Renae . 2006. Australian hip-hop: A sociolinguistic investigation. Australian Journal of Linguistics 26(2). 193-209.

Queen Robin . 2018. Working with performed language: Movies, television, and music. In Mallinson Christine Childs Becky Van Herk Gerard (eds.), Data collection in sociolinguistics: Methods and applications, 218-226. New York: Routledge.

Simpson Paul . 1999. Language, culture and identity: With (another) look at accents in pop and rock singing. Multilingua 18(4). 343-367.

Squires Lauren . 2018. Genre and linguistic expectation shift: Evidence from pop song lyrics. Language in Society 48(1). 1-30.

Trudgill Peter . 1983. Acts of conflicting identity: The sociolinguistics of British pop-song pronunciation. In Trudgill Peter (ed.), On dialect: Social and geographical perspectives, 141-160. Oxford: Blackwell.

Werner Valentin . 2018. Linguistics and pop culture: Setting the scene(s). In Werner Valentin (ed.), The language of pop culture, 3-26. New York: Routledge.