Sound Reviews: From the Mountains to the Prairies and Beyond the Pale: American Yodeling on Early Recordings

This sound review surveys yodeling in North American popular music. In order to better contextualize the recordings, the author mentions a few examples of sheet music with yodeling. His intention is to question why yodeling became attached to particular genres and how it functions in the constructio...

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Published inThe Journal of American folklore Vol. 125; pp. 358 - 374
Main Author Wise, Timothy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, Mass American Folklore Society 01.07.2012
Subjects
Blackface minstrels
Cowboy Music
Hillbilly Music
Historical Recordings
Jazz
Ragtime
Sound Recordings
Yodeling
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Summary:This sound review surveys yodeling in North American popular music. In order to better contextualize the recordings, the author mentions a few examples of sheet music with yodeling. His intention is to question why yodeling became attached to particular genres and how it functions in the construction of those genres. The focus here is on yodeling's connotations and associations and how these established expressive relationships between the moods, personae, and images of the songs. He highlights recordings in categories of early acoustic recordings, hillbilly yodelers, blackface yodeling in ragtime-jazz styles, and cowboy yodelers.
ISSN:0021-8715
1535-1882