Hollering: An Ancient Musical Tradition!

Hollering is a folk art developed to communicate across long distances or to call to animals and livestock. Learn about this oldest of traditions- and how you can holler too!

Learn to holler:    • Easy Folk Songs to Sing: Learn to Holler!  
Hear some expressive hollering:    • Expressive Hollering  

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Credits
Writer and Producer: Saro Lynch-Thomason
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Sources:
“Welcome to Spivey’s Corner,” Filmed and produced by Kier Kline, 1978. www.folkstreams.net/film-detail.php?id=238
“Hollerin,’” Recorded by Bill Nowlin, Bill Phillips, and Mark Wilson. Notes by Mark Wilson. Somerville, Mass.: Rounder Records, 1976.
Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 1: “Secular Music.” New York: Folkways Records, 1960. Tracks 13-17, including various field calls and greeting calls. Collected by Harold Courlander.
“Some Notes on the Southern ‘Holler’” by Ray B. Browne (1954). The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 67, No. 263 (pp. 73-77).
“Work Songs.” By Ted Goioia. Duke University Press (2006).

Images & Film:
"Kulning- Ancient Swedish Herding Call,"    • Kulning - Ancient Swedish herdingcall  
"Yodelling: Franzl Lang,"    • Видео  
"Hollerin': The National Hollerin' Contest,"    • Hollerin' - The National Hollerin' Contest  
“Altamira Bisons” by Thomas Quine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
“Rock Shelter, Bimbekta” by Bernard Gagnon. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
“Myrkur at St John On Bethnal Green.” Photo by Paul Hudson. Photo has been cropped.
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“Austria-01509 - Yodeling” By Dennis Jarvis.
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“This away,” “Basque Joy Holler,” “Hollerin.” Photos by Gerry Dincher
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Music & Sound: “Medley of Straight Jigs” by John J. Kimmel.