Yodeling and meaning in American music

Wise, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6757-9964 2016, Yodeling and meaning in American music , American Made Music , University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi.

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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? 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.

Item Type:	Book
Schools:	Schools > School of Arts & Media > Arts, Media and Communication Research Centre
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Series Name:	American Made Music
ISBN:	9781496805805 (hardback); 9781496805843 (ebook)
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Depositing User:	USIR Admin
Date Deposited:	18 Jul 2017 11:43
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 20:41
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/43075

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