http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Yodeling Posts tagged with 'Yodeling' at MetaFilter. Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:12:19 -0800 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:12:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70782/It%2Dis%2Dwidely%2Dknown%2Dthat%2Dcats%2Dare%2Dattractive%2Dcreatures%2Dthat%2Dcan%2Dprovide%2Dmany%2Dhours%2Dof%2Dentertainment <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4">An Engineers Guide to Cats</a> <small><small>(youTube)</small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70782 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:12:19 -0800 cats engineers static yodeling Lanark http://www.metafilter.com/57020/The%2DFalsettos%2DSkip%2DJames%2DTommy%2DJohnson%2DDona%2DDumitru%2DSiminica%2Dand%2DJoe%2DKeawe%2Damong%2Dothers Here is a video of one <a href="http://www.davestroud.com/glossary.def.falsetto.html" title="The Vocal Studio - glossary: Falsetto - 'Falsetto is the maximal elongation of vocal cords with minimal glottic gap...'">falsetto</a> singer:<br></br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIzNzOUglNM" title="Skip James at Newport 1966...however, this is not concert footage from Newport. Alan Lomax recreated a juke joint at Newport, stocked the bar, and let nature take its course. ">Skip James - Devil Got My Woman</a><br><br> More music by and information about <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19991109064502/www.eyeneer.com/America/Genre/Blues/Profiles/skip.james.html" title="From the liner notes for Document's 'Skip James - I'm So Glad: The Complete 1931 Paramount Sessions: '...Seldom can there have been a more impressive start to a recording career than 'Devil Got My Woman,' a seamless pattern of countertenor voice and eerie, hollow guitar, each taking up and embellishing the other, which is perhaps the single most poignant blues song about failed relationships between men and women.">Skip James</a>, a Romanian gypsy named <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/6718/dona-dumitru-siminic/" title="A review of Dona Dumitru Siminica - Sounds From a Bygone Age Vol. 3">Doma Dumitru Siminica</a>, <em>leo ki'eki'e</em> singers <a href="http://www.folklife.si.edu/hawaii/falsetto.htm" title="Hawaiian falsetto singing">Richard &amp; Solomon Ho'opi'i</a> and other <a href="http://www.cordinternational.com/falsetto_legends.htm" title="Hawaiian music emphasizes the voice. Many Hawaiian songs feature falsetto, called leo ki'eki'e, a term coined in Hawaiian in 1973. Falsetto singing, most often used by men, extends the singer's range to notes above their ordinary vocal range. The voice makes a characteristic break during the transition from the ordinary vocal register to the falsetto register.">Legends of Falsetto</a> within... tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.57020 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:48:55 -0800 Blues Falsetto Folk Hawaiian Music SkipJames Yodel Yodeling y2karl