Yodeling and Meaning in American Music

Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 255
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781496805812
ISBN-13 : 149680581X
Rating : 4/5 (81X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Yodeling and Meaning in American Music by : Timothy E. Wise

Download or read book Yodeling and Meaning in American Music written by Timothy E. Wise and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Related Books

Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Timothy E. Wise
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-28 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

GET EBOOK

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 func
Yodel in Hi-Fi
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Bart Plantenga
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-08 - Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

GET EBOOK

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 techniq
Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Stephanie Vander Wel
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-23 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

GET EBOOK

A PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovat
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Timothy E. Wise
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: American Made Music

GET EBOOK

The first musicological and ideological examination of the rich yodeling tradition
Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Bart Plantenga
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo is the first book to address the question: How did a centuries-old, Swiss mountain tradition make its way into American country music? Along th