the cultural minute of uncle Jahia... Yodeling and hobo what is it?

[Jean Pierre]

To document my cover of "Hobo bill's last ride"  https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=28193.0



about Yodeling
Yodeling (also jodeling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the high-pitch head register or falsetto. The English word yodel is derived from the German (and originally Austro-Bavarian) word jodeln, meaning "to utter the syllable jo" (pronounced "yo" in English). This vocal technique is used in many cultures worldwide.[1]

Alpine yodeling was a longtime rural tradition in Europe, and became popular in the 1830s as an entertainment in theaters and music halls. Sir Walter Scott wrote in his June 4, 1830, journal entry: "Anne wants me to go hear the Tyrolese Minstrels but...I cannot but think their yodeling...is a variation upon the tones of a jackass."[2] In Europe, yodeling is still a major feature of folk music (Volksmusik) from Switzerland, Austria, and southern Germany and can be heard in many contemporary folk songs, which are also featured on regular TV broadcasts.

although Savoyard I am a poor Yoleleur

Alpine yodeling was a longtime rural tradition in Europe, and became popular in the 1830s as an entertainment in theaters and music halls. Sir Walter Scott wrote in his June 4, 1830, journal entry: "Anne wants me to go hear the Tyrolese Minstrels but...I cannot but think their yodeling...is a variation upon the tones of a jackass."] In Europe, yodeling is still a major feature of folk music (Volksmusik) from Switzerland, Austria, and southern Germany and can be heard in many contemporary folk songs, which are also featured on regular TV broadcasts. 



In the United States, traveling minstrels were yodeling in the 19th century, and in 1920 the Victor recording company listed 17 yodels in their catalogue. In 1928, blending Alpine yodeling with African American work and blues music styles and traditional folk music, Jimmie Rodgers released his recording "Blue Yodel No. 1". Rodgers' "blue yodel", a term sometimes used to differentiate the earlier Austrian yodeling from the American form of yodeling introduced by Rodgers, created an instant national craze for yodeling in the United States and according to a black musician who lived near Rodgers in Mississippi, everyone, both black and white alike, began to copy Rodgers.

More on Wikipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodeling

an example of yodeling by Jimmie Rodgers


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIBmGZxAhg



about Hobo

hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagrant, especially one who is impoverished. 

while looking yesterday for information about hobos in the United States, I came across this film produced by Walt Dysney in 1985 (it's a nice story, a film rather for children, ..but it does well what the Hobos were in the USA after the crisis of 29



Another part of this film's feminist cred is its rare depiction of a female hobo. From Woody Guthrieto Kerouac to Big Rock Candy Mountain, the figure of the hobo is as much a part of US cultural identity as the cowboy. Both ways of living were at best hard and at worst brutal and dehumanising but have been romanticized and over the years have passed into folklore. And like cowboys, maybe even more so, hobos are almost exclusively imagined and represented as being male. 



here film trailer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQ7Un3EBvE