How Long to Read Yodeling and Meaning in American Music

How Long Does it Take to Read Yodeling and Meaning in American Music?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Yodeling and Meaning in American Music by Timothy E. Wise

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation into a range of American genres and beyond. Wise posits the reasons for yodeling's changing status in our music. How and why was yodeling introduced into professional music making in the first place? What purposes has it served in musical texts? Why was it expunged from classical music? Why did it attach to some popular music genres and not others? Why does yodeling now appear principally at the margins of mainstream tastes? To answer such questions, Wise applies the perspectives of critical musicology, semiotics, and cultural studies to the changing semantic associations of yodeling in an unexplored repertoire stretching from Beethoven to Zappa. This volume marks the first musicological and ideological analysis of this prominent but largely ignored feature of American musical life. Maintaining high scholarly standards but keeping the general reader in mind, the author examines yodeling in relation to ongoing cultural debates about singing, music as art, social class, and gender. Chapters devote attention to yodeling in nineteenth-century classical music, the nineteenth-century Alpine-themed song in America, the Americanization of the yodel, Jimmie Rodgers, and cowboy yodeling, among other topics.

How long is Yodeling and Meaning in American Music?

Yodeling and Meaning in American Music by Timothy E. Wise is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Yodeling and Meaning in American Music Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Yodeling and Meaning in American Music aloud.

What Reading Level is Yodeling and Meaning in American Music?

Yodeling and Meaning in American Music is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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