accents in music - Accent Pros

4 08, 2014

English Accent Training: How Music Helps With Proper Pronunciation

2017-03-28T05:54:48-05:00By John Atchley|

English Accent Training: How Music Can Help With Proper Pronunciation Music exists in different languages, but songs in standard American English can be heard everywhere. Foreign musicians themselves who want to enter in the American scene aim to lessen their accents in order to heighten their accessibility with American audiences and pay homage to their [...]

21 12, 2012

How Singing Affects Native Accents

2017-03-23T06:47:19-05:00By STorres|

Does singing truly negate individual accents? If you were to scan the playlist on your personal music player, paying attention only to how clearly the lyrics are pronounced in a given song, you'd be surprised to note that, irrespective of factors such as genre, musicianship, vocal style and melody, a singer's native accent normally isn't [...]