Yodeling and Meaning in American Music

Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
Author: Timothy E. Wise
Publsiher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-10-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781496805812

Download Yodeling and Meaning in American Music Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation into a range of American genres and beyond. Wise posits the reasons for yodeling's changing status in our music. How and why was yodeling introduced into professional music making in the first place? What purposes has it served in musical texts? Why was it expunged from classical music? Why did it attach to some popular music genres and not others? Why does yodeling now appear principally at the margins of mainstream tastes? To answer such questions, Wise applies the perspectives of critical musicology, semiotics, and cultural studies to the changing semantic associations of yodeling in an unexplored repertoire stretching from Beethoven to Zappa. This volume marks the first musicological and ideological analysis of this prominent but largely ignored feature of American musical life. Maintaining high scholarly standards but keeping the general reader in mind, the author examines yodeling in relation to ongoing cultural debates about singing, music as art, social class, and gender. Chapters devote attention to yodeling in nineteenth-century classical music, the nineteenth-century Alpine-themed song in America, the Americanization of the yodel, Jimmie Rodgers, and cowboy yodeling, among other topics.

Yodeling and Meaning in American Music

Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
Author: Timothy E. Wise
Publsiher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-10-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781496805836

Download Yodeling and Meaning in American Music Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation into a range of American genres and beyond. Wise posits the reasons for yodeling's changing status in our music. How and why was yodeling introduced into professional music making in the first place? What purposes has it served in musical texts? Why was it expunged from classical music? Why did it attach to some popular music genres and not others? Why does yodeling now appear principally at the margins of mainstream tastes? To answer such questions, Wise applies the perspectives of critical musicology, semiotics, and cultural studies to the changing semantic associations of yodeling in an unexplored repertoire stretching from Beethoven to Zappa. This volume marks the first musicological and ideological analysis of this prominent but largely ignored feature of American musical life. Maintaining high scholarly standards but keeping the general reader in mind, the author examines yodeling in relation to ongoing cultural debates about singing, music as art, social class, and gender. Chapters devote attention to yodeling in nineteenth-century classical music, the nineteenth-century Alpine-themed song in America, the Americanization of the yodel, Jimmie Rodgers, and cowboy yodeling, among other topics.

Yodel in Hi Fi

Yodel in Hi Fi
Author: Bart Plantenga
Publsiher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-02-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780299290535

Download Yodel in Hi Fi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Yodel in Hi-Fi explores the vibrant and varied traditions of yodelers around the world. Far from being a quaint and dying art, yodel is a thriving vocal technique that has been perennially renewed by singers from Switzerland to Korea, from Colorado to Iran. Bart Plantenga offers a lively and surprising tour of yodeling in genres from opera to hip-hop and in venues from cowboy campfires and Oktoberfests to film soundtracks and yogurt commercials. Displaying an extraordinary versatility, yodeling crosses all borders and circumvents all language barriers to assume its rightful place in the world of music. “If Wisconsin wasn’t on the yodel music map before, this book puts it there.”—Wisconsin State Journal

How to Yodel

How to Yodel
Author: Wylie Gustafson
Publsiher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2007
Genre: Yodeling
ISBN: 1423602137

Download How to Yodel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Big secrets of great yodelers ; Relax ; Singing exercise ; Find your voice break ; Basic yodel lesson ; Styles, rhythms, and tongue tricks ; Happy trails!

Yodel ay ee oooo

Yodel ay ee oooo
Author: Bart Plantenga
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0415939909

Download Yodel ay ee oooo Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Where Dead Voices Gather

Where Dead Voices Gather
Author: Nick Tosches
Publsiher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780316077149

Download Where Dead Voices Gather Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book -- a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.

The Blues A Very Short Introduction

The Blues  A Very Short Introduction
Author: Elijah Wald
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199752877

Download The Blues A Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no money and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food, you've damn sure got the blues." It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." Wald sees blues less as a style than as a broad musical tradition within a constantly evolving pop culture. He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago. He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music and jazz; and looks at the popular rhythm and blues trends of the 1940s and 1950s, from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the "down home" Chicago sound of Muddy Waters. Wald brings the story up to the present, touching on the effects of blues on American poetry, and its connection to modern styles such as rap. As with all of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, The Blues tells you--with insight, clarity, and wit--everything you need to know to understand this quintessentially American musical genre.

Yodeling in Dairyland

Yodeling in Dairyland
Author: James P. Leary
Publsiher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: IND:30000038757286

Download Yodeling in Dairyland Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A historical overview of Swiss music in America's most European state, and a short autobiography of Rudy Burkhalter, an influential performer whose varied career, in the Old World and the New, epitomizes the Swiss American experience. This nicely illustrated book covers yodeling, men's choirs, festivals celebrating Swiss heritage or cheesemaking, house parties, zithers and accordions, touring ensembles, recordings and radio shows, relations with German and Slovenian music, and many other aspects of music in Swiss American culture.