Trudgill on the Beatles

[Kenneth Setzer]

I'd like to see a mention of the Rolling Stones' attempts to use AAVE in their
early days (to imitate their Blues heroes?). Does anyone know if they are
mentioned?

AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:

> Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>
> >Peter Trudgill has an article showing how the
> >Beatles actually tried to Americanize their English in the early days, to
> >imitate their models in rock and blues music.
>
> She has kindly provided the citation:
>
> >it's in his collection _On Dialect: Social and Geographical
> Perspectives_ (New York Univ. Press, 1983).  It's a great article and even
> includes Bob Dylan's fakey mountain speech!  The article is called "Acts of
> conflicting identity: The sociolinguistics of British pop-song
> pronunciation."<
>
> - Allan Metcalf
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