The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120893   Message #2635023
Posted By: VirginiaTam
18-May-09 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: CD to Preserve Essex Dialect
Subject: RE: CD to Preserve Essex Dialect
I didn't produce the CD. It was launched last week and after reading internal email about it, I thought "how intersting and timely after reading in mudcat threads about singing songs in appropriate national or regional accent."

Some belive that if one can not replicate the accent then the song shouldn't be sung. This CD illustrates that dialects and accents do change and vanish. And indicates that songs need to be sung by whoever will, in order to preserve them.

Nothing created that dates back prior to sound recording can have been recorded in an unfiltered unchanged state. By the time it was recorded it had already changed from its first rendering. Language constantly morphs.