Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World

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Introduction
1: A Jodl Is a Jodel Is a Yodel?
2: Who Duh Lay Hee Who
3: Germany and Austria
4: Where Yodels Are Jodeled Beyond the Alps
5: From India to Down Under
6: African Yodeling beyond the Rainforest
7: Transmission and Transition
8: The Hillbillies are alive with Yodeling
9: A Cowboy's Yip to a Yodel
10: Modern Epiglottal Frontiers
11: Be On Your Avant Garde, Yodelers!

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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 the way, the reader discovers that yodeling is not just a Swiss thing--everyone from Central African pygmies, Nashville hunks-in-hats, avant-garde tonsil-twisters like Meredith Monk, hiphop stars De La Soul, and pop stars like Jewel have been known to kick back and release a yodeling refrain. Along the way, we encounter a gallery of unique characters, ranging from the legendary, such as country singer Jimmie Rodgers, to the definitely different, including Mary Schneider (the Australian Queen of Yodeling) who specializes in yodeling Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, and the Topp Twins, a yodeling lesbian duo who employ the sound in their songs aimed at battling homophobia. The book is both a serious study of the history of yodeling around the world and a fun look at how this unique sound has worked its way into popular culture. Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo promises to be a classic for fans of music and popular culture.

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Like its subject, this history of the yodel is both goofy and heroic. Plantenga unearths loads of historical data about the yodel, from its origins in Appalachia to its secret presence in modern pop, with stops in Germany, Latin America (where Tarzan's yell receives an entertaining sidebar) and, of course, American country music. Plantenga's style is breezy and ingratiating and he wisely refuses to treat yodeling or yodelers as a joke. An excellent treatment of an underdiscussed subject

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