{"id":59,"date":"2018-02-07T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/02\/07\/wait-you-tell-me-that-its-evolution\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:56:00","slug":"wait-you-tell-me-that-its-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/02\/07\/wait-you-tell-me-that-its-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait&#8230;you tell me that it&#8217;s evolution??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI came across this really interesting article about the accent of the Beatles, and about the impact of accent on music in general: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2018\/02\/06\/accent-beatles-music-vocals-american-english\/\">https:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2018\/02\/06\/accent-beatles-music-vocals-american-english\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6sezdd6jJeU\/WnnVL7E9XXI\/AAAAAAAAAmQ\/E-4Z7gFJkXMg5Sh9y6D6TIQPDgK6xP7uQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/1_KB0_Uj3RfiRis9_BFZGsTg.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6sezdd6jJeU\/WnnVL7E9XXI\/AAAAAAAAAmQ\/E-4Z7gFJkXMg5Sh9y6D6TIQPDgK6xP7uQCLcBGAs\/s320\/1_KB0_Uj3RfiRis9_BFZGsTg.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-1-349-25582-5_21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original article<\/a> about the speech changes present in Beatles music argues that evolving into a new genre was matched with changes in pronunciation and other speech features. Accent, of course, is an important feature of all kinds of speech performances and tells us a lot about the speaker. We don&#8217;t typically think of singers modifying their accents like actors to produce certain effects, but of course they do. For a more recent example, think early vs current Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>We have a ton of Beatles-related films in the library, but I&#8217;d like to highlight this streaming video of the Beatles arriving in New York:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=16851678\">https:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=16851678<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this really interesting article about the accent of the Beatles, and about the impact of accent on music in general: https:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2018\/02\/06\/accent-beatles-music-vocals-american-english\/ The original article about the speech changes present in Beatles music argues that evolving into a new genre was matched with changes in pronunciation and other speech features. Accent, of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}