Events and Outputs

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Journal Articles

West, H., Humphries, E., Dockwray, R. & West, G. (forthcoming). “Style”: A composite model for aligning musical genre and linguistic performance.

Humphries, E., & West, H., (forthcoming). “Everything Has Changed” Or has it? A real-time sociophonetic and multimodal analysis of Taylor Swift.

Presentations and Exhibitions 

Humphries, E., & West, H. (2024). “Everything Has Changed” or has it? Swift’s Accent Shifts. This public-facing interactive exhibition displays our results of our real-time sociophonetic investigation of Swift's accent in her country and pop-style music (funded by the Society and Culture Research and Knowledge Exchange Institute, University of Chester).

Humphries, E., & West, H. (Dec 2024). “Style”: The Swift Accent Shift Project. Workshop at Creative Futures, University of Chester.

West, H, Humphries, E., Dockwray, R., & West, G. (Dec 2024). “Style”: A composite model for aligning musical genre and linguistic performance. Communication, Screen and Performance Research Seminar. (Presentation)

Humphries, E., & West, H. (Feb 2024). “Everything has Changed” or has it? A real-time sociophonetic analysis of   Taylor Swift. Online presentation delivered at The Swiftposium 2024: An academic conference on Taylor Swift, The University of Melbourne.

Events

Humphries, E. & West, H. (Nov 2024). How Swiftly Does Swift's Accent Shift? The Language of Taylor Swift. An international Culture and Society RKEI public lecture that demonstrated the results of our research on Swift’s accent changes between her Country and Pop-style music.

"Everything Has Changed" or has it? Swift's Accent Shifts (Public-facing exhibition) Presented by/at:

  • Eastwood, M., & West H. (12th June 2024) Tay Day, University of Liverpool.
  • Humphries, E., West, H. & Eastwood, M. (4th July 2024) The Chester Festival of Ideas, Chester Town Hall.
  • (Sep - Oct., 2024) Seabourne Library, University of Chester.