{"id":13279,"date":"2020-02-17T20:09:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=13279"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:45:28","slug":"why-do-british-people-have-a-more-american-accent-when-they-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/17\/why-do-british-people-have-a-more-american-accent-when-they-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do British people have a more American accent when they sing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02182020-05-e1581987899809.jpeg\" alt=\"Why do British people have a more American accent when they sing?\" class=\"wp-image-13271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02182020-05-e1581987899809.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AW02182020-05-e1581987899809-300x294.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Why do British people have a more American accent when they sing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nDo they? I hadn&#8217;t noticed. Certainly not the case in old recordings of Cole Porter tunes. Perhaps American pop music has been dominant long enough to establish an &#8220;authentic&#8221; accent. (For a humorous adaptation of an American accent, look for &#8220;Far Away Eyes,&#8221; the Rolling Stones&#8217; affectionate satire of country &amp; western from their 1978 album Some Girls.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do they? I hadn&#8217;t noticed. Certainly not the case in old recordings of Cole Porter tunes. Perhaps American pop music has been dominant long enough to establish an &#8220;authentic&#8221; accent. (For a humorous adaptation of an American accent, look for &#8220;Far Away Eyes,&#8221; the Rolling Stones&#8217; affectionate satire of country &amp; western from their 1978 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/17\/why-do-british-people-have-a-more-american-accent-when-they-sing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do British people have a more American accent when they sing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13315,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions\/13315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}