A party pooper always has to appear. Someone who suggests, for example, that the yodel It has lethal qualities. I’m talking about filmmaker Tim Burton. In Mars attacks! (1996), the Martians are about to conquer our planet when it is discovered that they cannot stand the song Indian Love Callby cowboy artist Slim Whitman: his yodel It literally makes their oversized brains disintegrate.
Thanks, Tim! In truth, Whitman is not precisely the pure incarnation of the yodel. In historical terms, this technique is identified with Jimmie Rodgers, officially the father of country, a man of short life (1897-1933) but who left a considerable musical legacy. In 1997, Bob Dylan launched his record label, Egyptian Records, with The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgersa tribute to which Van Morrison, Dickey Betts, Bono and, naturally, many stars of the country. Dylan, by the way, avoided the chirps.
He yodel, better known here as yodeling, is usually considered a contribution of emigrants from Alpine countries to the United States. But there is an alternative theory: the aforementioned Rodgers started in the business of blackface, shows born in the 19th century where white artists blackened their faces and hands to mock the ways of the black minority. According to this, the yodel It would start from ancient musical traditions of African Americans.
Traditions that many descendants of emancipated slaves would reject after the ridicule of the blackface. Which would explain that the yodel has not prospered as much among black singers, with the exceptions of figures with well-endowed throats, such as Bobby McFerrin or Aaron Neville, who considered it another resource. A special case is Leon Thomas, a vocalist initially aligned with the spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders, who explained his audacity of chest and larynx as an inheritance from the singing of the pygmies of the humid African forests.
Let’s avoid entering into identity disputes. Maybe he yodel be as old as language or, at least, a derivative of the domestication process of animal species. The most gifted of yodelists cowgirls were the DeZurik Sisters, two sisters of Slovak origin who began imitating the birds and other creatures on their farm in Minnesota. Unfortunately, Mary Jane and Carolyn DeZurik recorded few albums, but witnesses to their live performances assured that, apart from their particular family zoo, they also emulated musical instruments and other sounds.
He yodel It can range from low tone to falsetto (or vice versa). Although it seems that the Swiss have the exclusive control of its commercialization, it was the Dutch Focus who introduced it to rock, with its catchy hocus pocus (1971). In general, the yodel reflects exuberance or melancholy; It is present in various cultures on the five continents. It appears in the original version of the most universal South African song, Mbuberecorded by Solomon Linda in 1939 and later released as The lion Sleeps Tonighta scandalous case of cultural appropriation (the author died in poverty).
And a Polynesian curiosity. Hawaiians claim that their yodel derives from the paniolos, as they called the cowboys who landed with their guitars in the archipelago, back in the 19th century. The natives believed they were Spanish but no, they mostly came from Mexico. Charros but not from Salamanca.
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