From the Mountains to the Prairies and Beyond the Pale

This sound review surveys yodeling in North American popular music, beginning with some of the earliest recordings on which it is featured. In order to better contextualize the recordings, I will also mention a few examples of sheet music with yodeling—items which are generally overlooked. My intention is to question why yodeling became attached to particular genres and how it functions in the construction of those genres. Indeed, two popular music genres—so-called hillbilly music and cowboy or Western music—made yodeling an important, if not identifying, component. 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

Art · Focus (optics) · Literature · Popular music · Visual arts · History · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theater, Performance, and Music History

• From the Mountains to the Prairies and Beyond the Pale

  Timothy Wise, Timothy E Wise•Journal of American Folklore•2012

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• Lullabies, Laments, and Ragtime Cowboys

  Open Access•Timothy Wise, TE Wise•American Music•2008

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• Jimmie Rodgers

  Charlie Seemann, Nolan Porterfield et al.•Western Folklore•1983

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• Musical Ornamentation as History

  Mantle Hood•Yearbook for Traditional Music•1983

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• Country-Western Music and the Urban Hillbilly

  D K Wilgus•Journal of American Folklore•1970

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• Jimmie Rodgers. A Folksong Catalyst

  John Greenway•Journal of American Folklore•1957

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• From the Mountains to the Prairies and Beyond the Pale

  Timothy Wise, Timothy E Wise•Journal of American Folklore•2012

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