Trudgill (1983) was one of the earliest studies to examine the attitudes towards regional dialect in popular culture to conclude that identities may be performed in the appropriation of other varieties. In particular, Trudgill examined the occurrence of features of American pronunciation in British popular music in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to conclude that the influence of American pronunciations weakened over time and that expression of an ‘English’ identity in British pop music simultaneously developed. As