Sting's latest album, The Last Ship, is about the decline of shipbuilding in his
native northeast of England. The album is apparently sung in a Geordie accent, and he
drifts uncharacteristically in and out of some notably northeastern dialect features
during an interview on today's Andrew Marr show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03lsl7t/?t=41m11s (UK only)
(If that link doesn't take you to the right spot, just scroll to 41m11s.)
Is this an example of a long-since departed ex-notherner (and indeed expatriate)
substantively reconnecting with his roots, or is it instead a cosmopolitan
globetrotter fetishising whatever local culture he has any remaining claim to? (Like
my media-esque binary choice?). You decide...
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
Visiting Lecturer (2013-14), Dept English, University of Turku, Finland
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