ISBN:
9781496805805
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 272 Seiten
Edition:
First printing
Series Statement:
American made music series
Parallel Title:
Online version Wise, Timothy E., author Yodeling and meaning in American music
DDC:
782.00973
Keywords:
Popular music History and criticism
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United States
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Yodeling
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Country music History and criticism
;
Mountain people in popular culture
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Cowboys in popular culture
;
Humor in music
;
Country music
;
Cowboys in popular culture
;
Humor in music
;
Mountain people in popular culture
;
Popular music
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Yodeling United States
;
USA
;
Jodeln
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index
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1.Classifying Yodeled Effects in Popular Music Yodel Species
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2.Yodel Sign and Yodel Idea in Nineteenth-Century Art Music
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3.Yodeling in Nineteenth-Century Vocal Music
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4.Americanizing the Yodel
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5.Jimmie Rodgers and the Hillbilly Yodel
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6.Cowboys and Yodeling
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7.The Vicissitudes of a Musical Sign How the Yodel Became a Joke
