Eind 2024 verscheen mijn artikel ‘Heffingsvers in Nederpop. Een Middelnederlands fenomeen in 20e- en 21e -eeuwse Nederlandstalige popmuziek’ in Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (140.3/4, december 2024, p. 201-227). Link https://doi.org/10.5117/TNTL2024.3/4.003.STAR

De Engelstalige samenvatting van dit Nederlandstalige artikel gaat als volgt:

It is generally assumed that accentual verse (heffingsvers), a medieval technique in which each line has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a varying number of weak or unstressed syllables, stopped existing in the Dutch language around the year 1700. This article shows that this is not true: accentual verse exists in modern Dutch-language pop songs (Nederpop). Auditory scanning of the forty most successful Dutch-language songs in the history of the Top 40 (1965-2023) shows that 43% of that corpus contains accentual verse. Chronologically throughout the years, the number of songs containing accentual verse increases, while classical meter decreases. In addition, full-rhyming end rhyme decreases, while assonant half-rhyme as end rhyme increases. Just as in the Middle Ages, verses with four stresses occur most frequently in this corpus. Researching accentual verse can teach us about literary-historical lines and the performativity of historical literary texts.

Sterre Leufkens interviewde me over dit onderzoek voor NEMO Kennislink. Link: https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/middeleeuws-ritme-terug-van-weggeweest/