Trudgill on the Beatles

[Dennis R. Preston]

Yes, the Stones are there (and Supertramp, Dire Straits, Stranglers, Clash,
Sham '69, and Ian Drury to boot). Mick Jagger's obvious attempts to use
AAVE is indeed noted.

dInIs (a Stones fan himself)

>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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Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
preston at pilot.msu.edu
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