There has been a very peculiar relationship between alcohol and the American public, that was at work in the years of the Volstead Act (1919 – 1933), better known as the prohibition. When the ban that made illegal the “production, sale, and transport of ‘intoxicating liquors’“ was finally lifted, Americans no longer had to celebrate, […]
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Month: March 2018
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music by Timothy E. Wise (2016)
Only for very short periods of time have yodeling and yodeling artists received critical attention and commercial success in the US. For most people, yodeling is not even close to singing; although the two forms of musical expression are very similar in a number of ways. And there are accounts of yodeling in (European) literature […]