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329 books match the query 'Folklore & Mythology' and 2 start with y
Yodel in Hi-Fi
From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary ElectronicaBart Plantenga
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012
Yodel in Hi-Fi explores the vibrant and varied traditions of yodelers around the world. Far from being a quaint and dying art, yodel is a thriving vocal technique that has been perennially renewed by singers from Switzerland to Korea, from Colorado to Iran. Bart Plantenga offers a lively and surprising tour of yodeling in genres from opera to hip-hop and in venues from cowboy campfires and Oktoberfests to film soundtracks and yogurt commercials. Displaying an extraordinary versatility, yodeling crosses all borders and circumvents all language barriers to assume its rightful place in the world of music.
“If Wisconsin wasn’t on the yodel music map before, this book puts it there.”—Wisconsin State Journal
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Yuuyaraq
The Yup'ik Way of BeingDavina Carl
University of Alaska Press, 2018
This book presents stories, traditional tales, and qanruyutet (oral instructions) shared by elders from throughout southwest Alaska as part of the Yuuyaraq curriculum project. In what they say, elders provide a window into a uniquely Yup'ik view of how the world works and what it means to be a real person. And they have done so with their young people firmly in mind. Yuuyaraq embodies a way of life in which sharing is central -- sharing of food, of stories, of knowledge. Our hope is that this book carries this message forward, to audiences of all ages.
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